Design Quotes · Page 181

“Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for…

— Peter Stanyer

History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or…

— Charles Lindbergh

I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

— Andree Putman

“It's not Art. And Art is not Design.”

— Chip Kidd

“All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will…

— Edith Schaeffer

If I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I…

— Paul Lockhart

It's really important for me that we work with the best factories and factories that are really thoughtful in their design and…

— Ben Francis

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

— Stephen Gardiner

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

— Leonardo da Vinci

[Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.

— Jacques Bertin

Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.

— Edward Young

When you are shooting over a period of six months, you tend to forget how dark or bright it was. And when…

— Rajiv Menon

Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all…

— Tim Brown

I think that you could design a terrible logo for a good company with great people and they could build it into…

— Michael Bierut

It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new…

— Antony Flew

Somebody who's designing something for himself has at least got a market of one that he's very close to.

— Steve Wozniak

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.

— Colleen Atwood

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

— Michelangelo

The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples.

— Pablo Neruda

The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

— Paula Scher

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what…

— Valentino Garavani

Although the rumors are of Apple doing an iWatch, I think that design idea is actually too limited.

— Tim Bajarin

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let…

— Henry David Thoreau

Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.

— Jan Tschichold

I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time…

— Alexis Ohanian