http://99designs.com/designer-blog/2013/09/16/10-famous-design-quotes/
There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.
— Milton Glaser
“The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.”
— Paul Rand
“You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt… or in front of a piece of graphic design.”
— Stefan Sagmeister
“Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.”
— David Carson
“I’ve never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it”
— Bob Gill
“It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.”
— Paula Scher
“If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.”
— Michael Bierut
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Never fall in love with an idea. They’re whores. If the one you’re with isn’t doing the job, there’s always, always, always another.”
— Chip Kidd
“But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.”
— Marian Bantjes
“Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.”
— Neville Brody
“Socrates said, “Know thyself.” I say, “Know thy users.” And guess what? They don’t think like you do.”
— Joshua Brewer
“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That’s my intent.”
— Saul Bass
“Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.”
— Frank Chimero
“I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things.”
— Lindon Leader
“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.”
— Jeffrey Zeldman
“The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.”
— Massimo Vignelli