Saul Bass Quotes

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

Today it’s economically crucial and personally rewarding to create something that is also beautiful, whimsical, or emotionally engaging.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

Doing beautiful things is its own reward.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

Sometimes it's a beautiful face, sometimes it's a place. I am inspired by everything.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

I believe that one of the most powerful things of all is aesthetics.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

The main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213).

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.