American - Designer | July 6, 1949 - May 2, 1999
I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.
Tibor Kalman
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No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not against beauty; it just sounds boring to me.
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I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge.
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We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.
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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.
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I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.
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I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.
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Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.
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Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.
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