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Top 20 Tibor Kalman Quotes (2025 Update)

Tibor Kalman Quote: “I’m always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.”

1. “I’m always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “You’ll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.”

2. “You’ll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman.”

3. “Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “Consumer culture is contradiction in terms.”

4. “Consumer culture is contradiction in terms.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.”

5. “Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.”

6. “No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. We don’t talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.”

7. “I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. We don’t talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You’ll miss them forever.”

8. “Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You’ll miss them forever.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE.”

9. “The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.”

10. “When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “Design is just language and the real issue is what you use that language to do.”

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

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “I like being a 10-year-old kid who’s in charge.”

12. “I like being a 10-year-old kid who’s in charge.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “We don’t talk about planes flying. We talk about them crashing.”

13. “We don’t talk about planes flying. We talk about them crashing.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what’s right and what’s wrong.”

14. “To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what’s right and what’s wrong.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “If you don’t have an idea, all you have is style.”

15. “If you don’t have an idea, all you have is style.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.”

16. “I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “Pictures are so good at giving people information that they’re not looking for.”

17. “Pictures are so good at giving people information that they’re not looking for.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way – as I did in the beginning at ‘Colors’ – then I’m going to do it.”

18. “If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way – as I did in the beginning at ‘Colors’ – then I’m going to do it.”

— Tibor Kalman

Tibor Kalman Quote: “I’m not against beauty, it just sounds boring to me.”

19. “I’m not against beauty, it just sounds boring to me.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.”

20. “I believe that this whole question of some photography being true and some untrue is a non-question. Photography is not objective; it never was objective.”

— Tibor Kalman

Tibor Kalman Quote: “I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability.”

21. “I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability.”

— Tibor Kalman

Tibor Kalman Quote: “Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I’ve tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.”

22. “Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I’ve tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.”

— Tibor Kalman

Tibor Kalman Quote: “Edits are very important to me – they’re the way in which I work on everything.”

23. “Edits are very important to me – they’re the way in which I work on everything.”

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Tibor Kalman Quote: “I’m not as good a writer as I’d like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.”

24. “I’m not as good a writer as I’d like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories.”

— Tibor Kalman

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