Edward Tufte Quotes

Anybody can tell you what they think. But if you can illustrate what you think, you have a better chance of persuading people.

If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.

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.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

I think any opportunity you can to employ some visual technique, go for it.

Vision isn't a template in PowerPoint.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

The image is an image.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

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

When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go 'I need to write a book. What's a good question?' It will be a question that's just clanging around in my head. So for 'What It Is,' it was this idea of 'What is an image?'

When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it's inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.

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

I've always believed that photography is a way to shape human perception.

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

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

I'm an image-maker.