Ed Benguiat famous quotes

To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.
-- Ed Benguiat

#Jobs #Design #Way

I do not think of type as something that should be readable. It should be beautiful.
-- Ed Benguiat

#Beautiful #Thinking #Should

Doing something a long time does not mean you're good. It only means you've done it a long time.
-- Ed Benguiat

#Mean #Long #Design

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.
-- Ed Benguiat

#Thinking #Design #Typography

The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved. That would lead to total chaos. The word itself (contribution) is to give to a common purpose.
-- Ed Benguiat

#Art #Giving #Design

Type should be beautiful — Screw readable!
-- Ed Benguiat

#Beautiful #Should #Type

The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.
-- Ed Benguiat

#Avant Garde #Looks

Type should be beautiful — Screw readable!
-- Ed Benguiat

#Beautiful #Type #Should

There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.