Edward Tufte - Best Quotes

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound – indeed so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Edward Tufte

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

The idea of trying to create things that last – forever knowledge – has guided my work for a long time now.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound – indeed so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

If you like overheads you'll love PowerPoint.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing.