I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.
Saul BassTry to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story
Saul BassInteresting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.
Saul BassThe ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.
Saul BassThere is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps Iโm luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good.
Saul BassThe nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesnโt work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But itโs not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing โthis isnโt going to work.โ And it does!
Saul BassI want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.
Saul Bass