A.A. Gill Quotes

Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Be stimulated by rejection

My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

Steve Jobs was Apple; Sir Alex Ferguson is Manchester United.

My Wings are a thousand books.

I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

I would love to hear someone write a song like 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' rather than 'You're hot. I'm hot. We're in a truck.' It's just mind-numbing to me.

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

Letters are things, not pictures of things.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

The stadium expansion is currently at the feasibility stage and has to go through that.

Continued experiment with dog today.

I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

All I can do is assess the value from Manchester United perspective. Whatever Chelsea do, they may have a different criteria, and different financial assets.

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

Parody is homage gone sour.

Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.

The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.

When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why.

Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up.

Once you have the statement, it will design itself.

Forget all the rules you ever learned about graphic design.

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.