Jeff Fisher Quotes

Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.

For years I thought I was just a writer, but when I sat down to design and started playing around with it, I realized that, really, it's pretty easy. Obviously it's more than just a set of rules, but the basics of design are actually pretty simple and quite mathematical. The link between data and design works at quite a fundamental level.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

If you want to communicate something, you'd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody.

I really feel that design has the capacity to communicate, and I really have concentrated on the communication of positive values.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Wherever there are words, let there be pictures.

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

To me, graphic T-shirts are the most important and most expressive format for a designer or a person. Your taste in graphic tees says a lot about your point of view.

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

Design is thinking made visual.

I'm not the greatest reader. I feel like I have a bit of dyslexia or something, and that's probably why I became a filmmaker. I have the need to communicate, the need to tell stories; and the need to understand stories led me to movies.

My basic mission as an artist is to communicate with people. Therefore, I am conscious I have to make films that people can digest.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.