Tibor Kalman's Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Don't look now but there's one man too many in this room and I think it's you!

I'll see you at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat til you get there. After that you're on your own.

I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it!

You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!