Milton Glaser quotes:

All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life.

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.

I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way.

We are all born with genius. It's like our fairy godmother. But what happens in life is that we stop listening to our inner voices, and we no longer have access to this extraordinary ability to create poetry.

I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.

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

Less isn't more; just enough is more.

Color is so intuitive.

I do virtually nothing except my work. No hobbies.

I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters.

The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

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

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.

Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

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.