Design Quotes · Page 66

I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.

— Ai Weiwei

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the…

— Olivier Theyskens

I was probably born with some designing abilities.

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of…

— Henry Petroski

Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.

— Frederic Goudy

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

— Kenzo Tange

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is…

— John Steinbeck

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

— Walter Scott

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I would design any vehicle, but probably least likely... a minivan.

— Henrik Fisker

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

— Douglas Adams

My design always has a political agenda. When I borrow components from various cultures and juxtapose them in an object, it is…

— Marcel Wanders

The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I'd say once…

— Diane von Furstenberg

The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of…

— Pliny the Elder

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw,…

— Tadao Ando

There's a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.

— Mark Zuckerberg

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live…

— Bob Dylan

In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design…

— Martin Rees

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to…

— George Nelson

To me, design is very personal. I'm not one of those people who is like, 'This is right, this is wrong.' You…

— Bobby Berk

Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the…

— Bruce Mau

Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns…

— Scott Berkun

History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will…

— Thomas Jefferson

My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in…

— Zaha Hadid

Communication in every which way is everything for the leader.

— John Maeda

The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of…

— Rebecca Solnit

Evie picked up the smallest of the rings and tried it on the fourth finger of her left hand. It fit perfectly.…

— Lisa Kleypas

I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the…

— Judi Dench

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

— Sun Ra

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

— Massimo Vignelli

The more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate.

— Michael Vanderbyl

I'm involved with every single thing that they do as far as just being aware, and then they ask my opinion. I'm…

— Klay Hall

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

— Geoffrey Beene

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

— Pierre Bonnard

Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design.

— Robert Frost

“In 2005 software actually had designs. Now everything is flat, colorless, without icons, without borders, gradients, just horrible. Mobile ruined everything, everything…

— stained hanes

The day will come when you will review your life and be thankful for every minute of it. Every hurt, every sorrow,…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I don't want being a woman to be a factor, or being short to bea factor, or being Jewish to be a…

— Paula Scher

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

— Robert L. Peters

What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of…

— Edward Tufte