George Lois

From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second. ”

The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.' ”

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind. ”

A graphic designer, you know, who understands ideas and understands that ideas are what makes the world go round, could change the world with a magazine. If one talent could do it right now, and everybody would stop saying it's the death of magazines. ”

There's no such thing as a cautious creative. ”

The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous. ”

It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone. ”

The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer. ”

The whole area of creativity is constipated and frightened. ”

Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity. ”