27 Quotes by Milton Glaser

I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.

We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

His work had a kind of velocity in the way things were made,

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.

What I feel fortunate about is that I'm still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that that's the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.

Less isn't more; just enough is more.