Tibor Kalman Quotes

• 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.

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  Imperfection, Insanity, Flying

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

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  Hate, Design, Graphic Design

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

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  Real, Issues, Design

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• The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

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  Differences, Design, Great Design

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• If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.

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  Ideas, Style, Ifs

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

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  Always Trying, Looks, Down And

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• You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.

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  Smarter

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• 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.

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  Communication, Thinking, Skills

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

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  Matter, Language, Speak

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• Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

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  People, Giving, Information

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• 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.

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  Successful, Knowing Nothing, Perfect

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• I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.

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  Stories, Use

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

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  Sound, Boring

  "Tibor Kalman" by Mark Porter, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 1999.

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• Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman.

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  Thinking, Artist, Dresses

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• 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.

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  Nice, Moving, Looks

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• Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

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  Culture, Contradiction, Term

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

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  Flying, Planes, Unpredictability

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

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  Perspective, Appreciated, Moments

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• To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.

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  Knowing

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

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  Use, Isms, Contrary

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• 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.

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  Stars, Color, Want

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

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  Children, Reality, Understanding Knowledge

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• 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.

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  Photography, Believe, Being True

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• 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.

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  Real, Communication, Ideas

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• I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge.

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  Kids, Years

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