Milton Glaser Quotes

If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they lose interest in the third act. You sort of get tired, and indifferent, and, sometimes, defensive. And you kind of lose your capacity for astonishment — and that’s a great loss, because the world is a very astonishing place. 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.

~ Milton Glaser

We’re always looking, but we never really see.

~ Milton Glaser

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

~ Milton Glaser

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

~ Milton Glaser

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

~ Milton Glaser

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.

~ Milton Glaser

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

~ Milton Glaser