Stefan Sagmeister Quotes

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• To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

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  Needs, Designer, Reaching

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• Ensure it feels like it's made by humans, for humans.

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  Made, Feels, Humans

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• It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff — as much stuff as possible — with as little fear as possible. It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.

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  Wind, Important, Littles

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• I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

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  Thinking, Desire, Want

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• Yes, design can make you happy.

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  Design, Make You Happy

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• Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

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• Work your ass off. Don't be an asshole.

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  Design, Ass

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• Hobbies are for people that don't like what they're doing.

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  People, Hobbies

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• You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

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  Art, Design, Pieces

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• To touch somebody’s heart with design.

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  Heart, Design

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• If you want to communicate something, youd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody.

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  Believe, Design, Teeth

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• You're authentic when you're honest.

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  Honest

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• Having guts always works out for me.

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  Work Out, Guts

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• Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.

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  Welcome, Computer, Excuse

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• Whenever I do overcome my inherent fear, it turns out well.

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  Overcoming, Turns, Wells

  Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I don't think there is a particular responsibility on designers that is not on other professions... I think there's a responsibility for all of us to engage on all levels.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Levels

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• I have done enough bullshit lately, I just have to make time for something better. Something good.

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  Bullshit, Done, Making Time

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• The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains ones body?

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  Mind, Answers, Body

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• I didnt think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

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  Thinking, Design, Style

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• Everybody thinks they are right

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  Inspirational, Hipster, Thinking

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• I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.

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  Design, Looks, Typography

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• So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

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  People, Might, Relate

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• My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for language, but was stopped. When I expressed a desire to become a graphic designer, I was not stopped.

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  Dad, Real, Desire

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• At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created a pattern against a background of yellow bananas spelling out the sentiment: Self-confidence produces fine results. After a number of days the green bananas turned yellow too and the type disappeared. When the yellow background bananas turned brown, the type (and the self-confidence) appeared again, only to go away when all bananas turned brown.

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  New York, Wall, Self Confidence

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• Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.

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  Drug, Drag, Feels

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