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

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.

Less isn't more; just enough is more.

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

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

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.

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