Design Quotes · Page 15

The primary factor is proportions.

— Arne Jacobsen

Design cannot rescue failed content.

— Anonymous

We are here for God's designs, not for our own

— Oswald Chambers

Inspiration comes from the act of writing.

— Steve Doll

I went back to college for construction and design.

— Jonathan Scott

I went to school for fashion design originally.

— Tabitha Brown

The good is not a category that interests me.

— Rem Koolhaas

To touch somebody’s heart with design.

— Stefan Sagmeister

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

— Pericles

Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.

— Steve Lohr

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

— Jonathan Ive

“Your life runs on a design – often one you didn’t choose.”

— Kevin L. Michel

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

— David Parnas

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

— Orville Wright

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

— Agatha Christie

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

— Danny Hillis

The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space,…

— Adrian Frutiger

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's…

— Vaughan Oliver

Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Trust me: if it doesn’t match: it will clash! Focusing on a stunning complimentary color instead of a close-but-not-quite-right one is one…

— Chantal Larocque

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

— Saul Griffith

If you design a future that inspires others as much as it inspires you, the world will conspire to make it happen.

— Vikrant Parsai

When I first started my graphic design career, and 'Beach Culture' magazine, I pretty much ran from the surfer label. It was…

— David Carson

There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with…

— Shirin Ebadi

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on…

— Richard Rogers

I don't necessarily have any designs in being in politics for the rest of my life. I don't necessarily think that this…

— Markos Moulitsas

Changing up your home decor is a great way to get a fresh start, especially when going through something like a breakup…

— Christina Anstead

The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting,…

— Michelangelo

I am left with no choice but to acknowledge the existence of a superior Intellect, responsible for the design and development of…

— Robert J. White

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

The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by…

— Dennis Prager

There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no…

— Anonymous

When the image is new, the world is new.

— Gaston Bachelard

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

— Spike Jonze

Websites should look good from the inside and out.

— Paul Cookson

Attractive things work better.

— Donald A. Norman

Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps.

— Neil Gaiman

I like to find areas where design has not yet gone.

— Marcel Wanders

Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.

— Christian Louboutin

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

— George Gilder