Tibor Kalman quotes:
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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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Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.
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The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE
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Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.
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We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.
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I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.
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Consumer culture is contradiction in terms
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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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Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.
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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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Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman.
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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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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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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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I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.
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No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.
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Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.
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I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge.
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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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If you don't have an idea, all you have is style.
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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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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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Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.
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I'm not against beauty, it just sounds boring to me.
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We don't talk about planes flying. We talk about them crashing.
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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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When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.
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You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.