Logo designing is the most crucial aspect of graphic designing, and creating ideas for great logos are not easy. Roots of arts and designing dated back to many centuries. Great designers and artists had shaped the history of arts and designing. Here I have collected few quotes by some greatest artists and logo designers, as well as quotes from some other famous people. These quotes surely are the greatest inspiration for the modern graphic designing.
I would like to start with the quotations by the legendry names of history, whose names are evergreen and will always alive ever after.
“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. “
–Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519)
“Go some distance away because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”
–Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519)
“I am still learning.”
–Michelangelo (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564)
“To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.”
–Michelangelo (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564)
Some motivational quotes from famous logo designers:
“Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.”
–Paul Rand (August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996)
“Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.”
–Paul Rand (August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996)
“Design is everything. Everything!”
–Paul Rand (August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996)
“Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.”
–Raymond Loewy (5 November, 1893 – 14 July, 1986)
“To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.”
– Milton Glaser
“A person without imagination is like a teabag without hot water. “
–Alan Fletcher
“Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.”
–Ivan Chermayeff
“Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand – not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.”
–Ivan Chermayeff
Let see what other famous people say about arts and designing:
“Art is not life, nor a reproduction of life, but a representation carried out within the specific terms, conversions and limitations of the particular art used. Hence absolute truth, with reference to objective fact, is not to be found in the business. The most realistic art is considerablely removed from reality. Art does not give real things or imitations of real things. The thing that art gives is strained first through the artist’s selections and judgments, and then through the specific techniques with he used to present them. If you are to enjoy an art, you must first accept its terms.”
–Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975)
“Let the designer lean upon the staff of the line—line determinative, line emphatic, line delicate, line expressive, line controlling and uniting.”
–Walter Crane (15 August, 1845 – 14 March, 1915)
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”
–Louis Nizer (February 6, 1902 – November 10, 1994)
“An image … is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.”
–Daniel Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004)
“A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique.”‘
–Primo Angeli
“The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer’s most valuable asset.”
–Primo Angeli
“If it doesn¹t sell, it¹s isn¹t creative.”
–David Ogilvy (June 23, 1911 – July 21, 1999)
