Design Quotes · Page 63

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

— Dorothea Dix

Dress designing . . . is to me not a profession but an art,

— Elsa Schiaparelli

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

— Boris Beizer

Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

— David Bromstad

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

— Kenzo Tange

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

— Elaine Dundon

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

— Eva Zeisel

Accident is natures way of starting a design; design is a mans way of looking at the accidents.

— Thiruman Archunan

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.

— Anonymous

Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I…

— Miuccia Prada

My whole success is I've always been designing for people, first because I wanted to sell them merchandise. Then when I got…

— Morris Lapidus

Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things…

— Timothy Morton

The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.

— Robert Edmond Jones

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only…

— Charles James

I almost went to Central Saint Martins for fashion design. I deferred for a year when I graduated high school so that…

— Hunter Schafer

You can build a brain the size of a room, theoretically. You could also build a silicone based life form and it…

— Neill Blomkamp

I think a lot more people are able to take on a design challenge than ever before. And this was true 20…

— Khoi Vinh

Good design is innovative 2. Good design makes a product useful 3. Good design is aesthetic 4. Good design makes a product…

— Dieter Rams

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast…

— Henry Ford

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be…

— Henry Fielding

Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing…

— Karl Lagerfeld

I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in…

— Tim Gunn

The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good…

— Jerry Saltz

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

— Mahnaz Afkhami

I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.

— Rob Kardashian

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

— Paula Scher

Design isn't risky - change is. Good design mitigates that risk.

— Jeffrey Veen

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

— Peter Shumlin

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

— David Carson

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

— Samuel Florman

I'm not into fashion, but I like design. I wear the same shoes every day.

— Tyler, The Creator

Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

— Yves Behar

It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.

— John Romero

Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

— Alber Elbaz

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this

— Michael Graves

Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

— William McDonough

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

— Jane Jacobs

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

— Charles Bukowski

In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.

— Neri Oxman