Design Quotes · Page 121

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

— Brian Eno

I have to say the thing that I want to do so badly is design a line. I still don't know exactly…

— Crystal Renn

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

— Anthony Burgess

We want to design interventions to teach people how to harness their considerable willpower.

— Carol S. Dweck

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

— John Tenniel

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

— Zaha Hadid

The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together.…

— Colleen Atwood

The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

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

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

— William Zinsser

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context.

— Eliel Saarinen

“It is not, of course, only the Japanese who find flat sterile surfaces attractive and kirei. Foreign observers, too, are seduced by…

— Alex Kerr

Design can change how you look at yourself.

— Ty Pennington

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form…

— Peter Zumthor

I've always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.

— Jimmie Johnson

I originally studied graphic design and video production. I had wanted to be a programmer - I loved development and coding -…

— iJustine

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

— Henri Matisse

This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing,…

— Jeff Ament

“Ars est celaree artem.”

— Anonymous

“Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly…

— Anonymous

When I was growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, this is where the space and rocket center was. This is where all of…

— Jimmy Wales

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

— William Blake

The token of a true cosmos is in fact a particular kind of design, referred to in the book of Genesis in…

— Rodney Collin

For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so,…

— Ben Stein

The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a…

— Janet Fitch

I always kept the fans happy. They always saw a different Rey, whether it was a mask, a design, a color. I…

— Rey Mysterio

Every disruptive innovation is powered by a simplifying technology, and then the technology has to get embedded in a different kind of…

— Clayton Christensen

Rules of Play is an exhaustive, clear, cogent, and complete resource for understanding games and game design. Salen and Zimmerman describe an…

— Nathan Shedroff

I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that…

— Bill Moggridge

When in doubt, use Caslon.

— William Caslon

Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a…

— James Pearse Connelly

You only get one shot in your life and you might as well push yourself and try things. There's so many interesting…

— Jason Statham

I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors…

— Alfred de Musset

After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

— Albert Hadley

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

— John Maeda

I design differently because I am Patrick Kelly, and Patrick Kelly is black

— Patrick Kelly

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

— Jef Raskin

I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people…

— Khoi Vinh