Best 22 quotes of Tibor Kalman on MyQuotes

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.

Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.

If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way - as I did in the beginning at 'Colors' - then I'm going to do it.

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

I'm not against beauty, it just sounds boring to me.

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.

Some people... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different plane from an obviously subjective form of visual communication such as painting.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman.

We don't talk about planes flying. We talk about them crashing.

What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances - accents, punctuation and so on - that they spend little time thinking about what the words add up to. I’m interested in using our communication skills to change the way things are.

When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability.

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other color – because you don’t want to offend anybody. But by definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it. So I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. We don’t talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.