Design Quotes · Page 42

“Design is not really a way for me to express myself. Design is a product that we produce for a client.”

— Peleg Top

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

— John Malkovich

Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.

— Alexander Isley

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

— Massimo Vignelli

Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.

— Massimo Vignelli

Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

— Daniel Boulud

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

— Klaus Krippendorff

I never knew that I would be actually designing clothes or as into fashion as I am now.

— Tyga

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

— Josh McDowell

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

— Karl Lagerfeld

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories -…

— Frank Gehry

“Design factors, such as color, font, layout, and navigation, are critical in making it through the first “trust rejection” phase.”

— Susan M. Weinschenk

I was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had…

— Gauri Khan

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates…

— Norman Spinrad

Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am…

— Sarah Morris

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the…

— Sydney Pollack

“Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately…

— William Paley

When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work.…

— Marc Forster

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

— Anonymous

Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to…

— David Miliband

The Divine glory is an object only worthy of attention; and to display his holy character, was the design of God in…

— Lemuel Haynes

There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK…

— Tim Pawlenty

I would like to design a really cool watch. I've done a little bit of watches in the past, but I didn't…

— Henrik Fisker

I broke pretty much every rule of classic game design and tried to invent new ones.

— David Cage

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

— Anonymous

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

— Christopher Nolan

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.

— Karim Rashid

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

— Stefan G. Bucher

The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

— John Gruber

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

— Marc Newson

“The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.”

— Anonymous

The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.

— Bob Barton

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

— Chip Kidd

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

— Michael Abrash

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

— Jonathan Ive

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

— Stella McCartney

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

— Jonathan Ive

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

— Julian Treasure