Design Quotes · Page 52

If you look at WeWork as a brand I think the way we design has a more masculine vibe.

— Miguel McKelvey

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

— Ralph Lauren

There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

— Jonathan Ive

Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

— Robert Edmond Jones

I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.

— Vivienne Westwood

Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

— Jeanne Gang

[Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.

— Nicholas Negroponte

Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

— Frederic Goudy

Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part…

— Mark Batterson

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the…

— Douglas Wilson

Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional…

— Anonymous

It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't…

— Mike McCready

Even though I design my own jewelry, one of the great things about my job is being able to bring in really…

— Monika Chiang

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I…

— Martin Fowler

I don't want to design something that everybody else would do. I want to design something that's bigger or better or funnier…

— Chris March

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

— Marthe Bibesco

Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory…

— Azar Nafisi

Every woman hates her own body. I don't know a woman who doesn't . . . well, I do know a few…

— Vera Wang

The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase,…

— Mary Robinson

We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia…

— Henry Petroski

Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product…

— W. Edwards Deming

There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of…

— Jack Nicklaus

I don't use work from the past as a literal guide; rather, those artifacts reinforce a view that simple images can communicate…

— Susan Kare

That's the challenge you take as a player, coach, whatever... executive... that you're gonna have to perform at a high level, whether…

— Mike D'Antoni

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

— Bob Gill

Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

— Leonardo da Vinci

My design philosophy is to make women feel like peacocks.

— Matthew Williamson

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

— Otl Aicher

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

— Robert Bringhurst

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

— Zaha Hadid

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

— Michael Hansmeyer

I want to write, produce, act, and get into fashion design.

— Tonya Mitchell

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

— Ross Perot

Great design... you won't have a business today without great design.

— Angela Ahrendts

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help,

— Edward Tufte

Shah Rukh is very talented with design, and he is extremely creative.

— Gauri Khan

In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is…

— Nils Bohlin

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

— Anonymous

I like to paint my own helmets. I design my own suit and boots, I like being unique in that way.

— Lando Norris

You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.

— I. M. Pei