24 George Lois Quotes for You to Enjoy

George Lois

American Artist

Born: Jun 26, 1931

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Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion. George Lois

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In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind. George Lois

Work Courage People Wind Blow Arts Certainly Graphics Professional Zero

These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or Leonardo DiCaprio, could possibly match the visual punch of Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, grinning boy, goofily peeking out at us on the newsstand. George Lois

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I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator. George Lois

Big Down Design Think Put Idea Big Idea Get Communicator Designer

When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture. George Lois

If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work. George Lois

Work You People Think Spend Lifetime Doing Dumb

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

Time Old Three Every Drew Years Four Second Every Second

I look in the mirror, and I work with the brightest person I know. George Lois

Work Mirror Know Look Person Brightest

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.' George Lois

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I had a fistfight with every kid on my block. I got about fifteen broken noses to prove it. Part of it was also because I was always drawing, and I always had an artist portfolio with me. But I was a tough kid. I won their respect. George Lois

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. George Lois

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People say I'm the original Don Draper. I'm not Don Draper. George Lois

People Say People Say Original

What Apple did for technology is brilliant, but they didn't do nothin' for our economy. George Lois

Technology Brilliant Our Economy Did Nothin Apple

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.' George Lois

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

Creativity Power Gone Everywhere Visual Almost Dead Advertising Now Basically

I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me. George Lois

Today Me Culture World Destroyed Exist May

I'm sounding like an old fart talking about how bad advertising is today, but it's true. Advertising sucks. Guys like me and Bob Gage and certainly Bill Bernbach and two or three other guys, we exemplified and led the creative revolution. George Lois

When I lecture kids, I say, 'You've got to be ambitious by the advertising' - ambitious. You've got to say, 'See, this product? Maybe I can change the world with this product.' They look at me like I'm nuts, but that's what you can do. George Lois

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