Design Quotes · Page 46

Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.

— Gauri Khan

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

— Christopher Alexander

Design has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldy.

— Anonymous

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

— Bob Gill

I've always liked working with an archetypal design, something functional.

— Grayson Perry

I am the Soul. I am the Light Divine. I am Love. I am Will. I am Fixed Design.

— Alice Bailey

Good design is probably something that has been thoroughly thought through to a point of resolution.

— David Linley

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

— Matt Smith

There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with…

— Peter Marino

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it’s about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has…

— Austin Kleon

Pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed by planners into narrow and often dangerous spaces - the afterthoughts of urban design.

— George Monbiot

Apple embodies a lot of what have been defined as feminine traits: an emphasis on intuitive design, intellect, a strong sense of…

— Louis C. K

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the…

— Edward Tufte

Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural…

— Van Day Truex

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would…

— Paul David Tripp

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the…

— Donald A. Norman

Whether one sees the world as God's creation or as a secular mystery that science is on the way to figuring out,…

— Robert C. Solomon

I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!…

— Christian Louboutin

The Taj stands on a raised, square platform (186 x 186 feet) with its four corners truncated, forming an unequal octagon. The…

— Anonymous

One of the greatest struggles of bureaucracies is they get built and created, but they design themselves in such a way that…

— Josh Barnett

Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the a.non.y.muse roller that passed upon my…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I love how significant jewelry is throughout the world and throughout time. People have been adorning themselves with jewelry for years and…

— Pamela Love

My work is really the accumulation of these different moods that I've had throughout my life and where they've taken me. I…

— David Bowie

In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it…

— Marilyn Strathern

Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

— Anonymous

I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.

— Dennis Muilenburg

The more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate.

— Michael Vanderbyl

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

— Erik Spiekermann

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

— Jonathan Ive

My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.

— Elsie de Wolfe

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great,

— Jonathan Ive

“With every choice you create the life you’ll live; with every decision you design it.”

— Mollie Marti

“Style is a matter of taste, design a matter of principles.”

— Thomas Church

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

— Neil Young

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

— Charles Eames

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

— Edwin Lutyens

Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design?

— Lana Del Rey

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

— Jef Raskin

Design in black and white. Add color for emphasis, when your design is complete.

— Diane Wilson