Design Quotes · Page 111

All typefaces are historical.

— Jonathan Hoefler

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

— Jaime Pressly

Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional…

— Sarah Burton

To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user…

— Jakob Nielsen

How do you design the product in a way so that it sells itself?.

— Regis McKenna

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and…

— Jay Roach

Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On…

— Samuel Mockbee

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

— Janet Macunovich

I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre…

— Michael Chabon

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

— Marc Newson

I don't want to end my career and then start something. I like to do something while my career is still hot…

— Serena Williams

Creating a city for successful aging involves incorporating age friendly values into everything we do - every plan, every project, every design.…

— Kirk Caldwell

There is no one I'd like to exclude when I design. It's not like I'm trying to design for everyone. Probably can't…

— Marcel Wanders

Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its…

— Anonymous

I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too…

— Anonymous

Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.

— Ai Weiwei

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that…

— Russ Carnahan

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state…

— Michael Shannon

Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.

— Bruce Mau

Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

— Henry Petroski

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

— Jaime Lerner

Since God is the end of man, since he has created us to be perfect and happy in him, it is manifest…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into…

— Zaha Hadid

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would…

— Thucydides

I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and…

— Beryl Markham

Obama really changed the way in which design can be used effectively for a candidate.

— Debbie Millman

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

— Samuel Johnson

Whenever I study a genre of film-making, Steve Spielberg is the first guy I go to. Even Catch Me If You Can,…

— Tim Matheson

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

— Alison Bechdel

Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit…

— Hermann Hesse

Product design is fed by the avant-garde.

— Cornelia Parker

By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice,…

— John Muir

Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication…

— Ben Hunt

It became very important for me to stand up and design with a conscience for environment, you know? Just because you like…

— Maria Cornejo

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory…

— Lorenzo Ghiberti

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

— Freeman Dyson

I recognized that the passion I have and feel for interior and design and furniture was not organically there for styling. The…

— Jeremiah Brent

Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics…

— Albert Hadley

I think Willa Cather did a short story called "Paul's Case," and in it, when he finally commits suicide, it says, "He…

— Rod Serling