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American - Artist Born: June 26, 1931

These days, no celebrity on a magazine cover, including Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, Julia Roberts, or Leonardo DiCaprio, could possibly match the visual punch of Alfred E. Neuman, the gap-toothed, grinning boy, goofily peeking out at us on the newsstand.

Boy Celebrity Us Days

The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer.

Creativity Photoshop Everybody Role

Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

Positive Me New Moving

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.

Mind Deep Nervous Nervous System

Because advertising and marketing is an art, the solution to each new problem or challenge should begin with a blank canvas and an open mind, not with the nervous borrowings of other people's mediocrities. That's precisely what 'trends' are - a search for something 'safe' - and why a reliance on them leads to oblivion.

Art People Mind Challenge

What I taught myself was that in any problem you get, you've got to come up with an innovative, brilliant, kind of unusual, stunning solution.

Myself You Problem Solution

When you create advertising, always start with the words.

You Words Start Advertising

I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.

Design Think Down Big

When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture.

War Culture Sitting Feelings

If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.

Work You People Think

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From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second.

Time Three Old Years

Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.

You People Great Nothing

I look in the mirror, and I work with the brightest person I know.

Work Mirror Look Know

When you think of a brand, you should immediately understand it from the advertising attitude, from the words and visuals.

Attitude You Words Think

The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.'

Communication Men History Art

I had a fistfight with every kid on my block. I got about fifteen broken noses to prove it. Part of it was also because I was always drawing, and I always had an artist portfolio with me. But I was a tough kid. I won their respect.

Me Respect Broken Drawing

Doyle Dane Bernbach was a great, great agency when I got there. There was an arrogance that everyone had, but it was a closed club. I was a guy who worked a little differently. Edgier. More punch-in-the-mouth.

Great Arrogance Everyone More

To me, great advertising can make food taste better, can make your car run smoother. It can change your perception of something. Is it wrong to change your perception about something? Of course not. I'm not lying; I'm just saying, 'This one's more fun, this one's more exciting.'

Change Me Car Food

If somebody says to you, 'MTV,' you think of Mick Jagger on a phone screaming at that phone: 'I want my MTV.' That, to me, was always the epitome of great advertising.

Me You Great Phone

The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. And I really believe that. And what I try to teach young people, or anybody in any creative field, is that every idea should seemingly be outrageous.

People Believe Creative Habit

The producers of 'Mad Men,' you know, think I hate their show, which is true.

Men You Hate Think

Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it's a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it's supposed to be, you know, that's supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it's unbelievable. It's shocking.

God You People Creativity

A graphic designer, you know, who understands ideas and understands that ideas are what makes the world go round, could change the world with a magazine. If one talent could do it right now, and everybody would stop saying it's the death of magazines.

Death Change You Talent

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

Creative Thing Cautious

I've done truth to power all my life. It's got me into trouble, but who cares?

Life Me Truth My Life

If you work with convictions, people have got to listen to you.

Work You People Listen

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