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Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.

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

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

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

By definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

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

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

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

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

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

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

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.

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

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

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