Arthur H. Robinson

"I started with a kind of artistic approach... I visualized the best-looking shapes and sizes. I worked with the variables until it got to the point where, if I changed one of them, it didn't get any b…"

"Until such time as logic and objective research concerning the relative efficiency of the various possibilities is undertaken, the cartographer can but rely on the experience and direction of the arti…"

"Happiest day of my life, was when the Defense Department took down its Mercator... I started learning how to make maps while on an Army payroll. So getting to see mine in the Pentagon, flanked by gene…"

"Our experience in the Cartographic Section of the Division clearly showed that the creation of a special purpose map was frequently as much a problem in design as it was a problem in substantive compi…"

"While doing illustrative work for Roderick Peattie, from him I learned the value of the unorthodox."

"Today most maps are printed by lithography."

"There are few results of man's activities that so closely parallel man's interests and intellectual capabilities as the map."

"There is also a considerable tendency to define the subject as a kind of meeting place of science and art. This is exemplified by Eckert. He pleads for artistic imagination and intuition in cartograph…"