Design Quotes · Page 65

The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.

— Rachel Lambert Mellon

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

— Ben Nicholson

When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.

— Ferran Adria

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

— Alexander McQueen

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

— Emil Ruder

The easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.

— Dave Winer

Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.

— Jessica Walsh

Children's picture books are a unique record of social evolution: in gender roles and racial politics, as is much discussed, but also…

— Rumaan Alam

I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade…

— Nancy Lancaster

I loved the idea of evolving traditional methods and design to make products that last but are also relevant for the modern…

— David Linley

Christina on the Coast' is designing for other people based on their own style, so it's much more high design and you're…

— Christina Anstead

“Fear has the role we give it. We are able to empower or poison ourselves to whatever degree we want. This is…

— Steve Maraboli

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content…

— Barbara Kruger

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

— Renzo Piano

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos,…

— Clement Mok

Here's what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny looking, and he…

— Julia Cameron

Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

I have never engineered a record. I will draw a record and I'll show you what it's gonna look like. And I…

— Goldie

I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line…

— Neri Oxman

I think it's really cool that videogames are getting more and more sophisticated and believable, and that people who worked on movies…

— Mark Walton

To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and…

— Greg Lynn

Simon had never noticed before, but she wore a silver ring on her right hand, with a partner of flames around the…

— Cassandra Clare

Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time, there's a lot…

— Stephen King

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

— William Morris

The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices.

— Tom Peters

Goal we've always had for design at Apple is to create solutions that are inevitable.

— Jonathan Ive

It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.

— Michael Abrash

I get a real kick out of it, seeing people wear my designs.

— Stella McCartney

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

— Chip Kidd

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

— Jack Kerouac

We experience every space in five senses, so it's strange that architects design just for the eyes.

— Julian Treasure

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.

— Jonathan Ive

The older I get, the happier I am with the way my career has gone. Although, in many ways, it's been through…

— Lee Pace

I actually don't think that brand new logos are worth that much or mean that much in and of themselves. So why…

— Michael Bierut

O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use…

— Benjamin Franklin

Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study.

— Leonard Nimoy

There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to…

— William A. Dembski

Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There…

— Anurag Kashyap

Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

— Donald A. Norman