45 Quotes by Massimo Vignelli

Good design is ubiquitous and forever.

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing.

You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory – the appearance is fashion, the appearance is trendiness – but the essence is timeless.

I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.

Any color works if you push it to the extreme.

You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the right. And the same is for the computer, really. You have to play yourself to get the most out of it.

The pencil you leave it there, and it’s dead. It doesn’t do anything and it doesn’t move by itself. It doesn’t offer anything; it’s totally submissive to you.

It is better to starve than get a bad client.

Greed is really the religion of vulgarity.