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Top 15 Chip Kidd Quotes (2025 Update)

Chip Kidd Quote: “If you can properly define the problem, then you’ve already defined the solution as well.”

1. “If you can properly define the problem, then you’ve already defined the solution as well.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.”

2. “A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.”

3. “Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.”

4. “Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.”

5. “Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.”

6. “Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “If you intend to die, you can do anything.”

7. “If you intend to die, you can do anything.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I’m grateful for it. Viva le book!”

8. “I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I’m grateful for it. Viva le book!”

Chip Kidd Quote: “Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness – a little bit of humanity.”

9. “Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness – a little bit of humanity.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.”

10. “I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “I am all for the iPad, but trust me – smelling it will get you nowhere.”

11. “I am all for the iPad, but trust me – smelling it will get you nowhere.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped – when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.”

12. “I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped – when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.”

13. “I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “My longing for someone to talk to made Himillsy the lightning bug in my honey jar. I punched holes in the lid so she could breathe.”

14. “My longing for someone to talk to made Himillsy the lightning bug in my honey jar. I punched holes in the lid so she could breathe.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.”

15. “Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “I find that the older I get, the clearer I want things to be. I think this is a natural symptom of maturation – as we age, mysteries pile up, and they’re usually not the fun ones: Just how long do I have? Why do some people get what they deserve, and others don’t? Why are certain problems so easy to solve, while others are totally impossible? Will they ever, ever bring working jetpacks to the marketplace?”

16. “I find that the older I get, the clearer I want things to be. I think this is a natural symptom of maturation – as we age, mysteries pile up, and they’re usually not the fun ones: Just how long do I have? Why do some people get what they deserve, and others don’t? Why are certain problems so easy to solve, while others are totally impossible? Will they ever, ever bring working jetpacks to the marketplace?”

Chip Kidd Quote: “Even if I wasn’t a Japanophile, I would still use chopsticks all the time, for all kinds of cuisine. Especially salads, which can be unwieldy on a fork. The cultural difference between selecting your food and stabbing it is symbolic of the quiet simplicity of the East versus the blunt directness of the West.”

17. “Even if I wasn’t a Japanophile, I would still use chopsticks all the time, for all kinds of cuisine. Especially salads, which can be unwieldy on a fork. The cultural difference between selecting your food and stabbing it is symbolic of the quiet simplicity of the East versus the blunt directness of the West.”

Chip Kidd Quote: “Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say ‘Humanity,’ Garrett’d spin and respond, without hesitation, ‘Solvable’.”

18. “Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say ‘Humanity,’ Garrett’d spin and respond, without hesitation, ‘Solvable’.”

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