Design Quotes · Page 19

Attitude creates your world and designs your destiny.

— Myles Munroe

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

— Paul Rand

The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer

— Aaron Betsky

Ideas are worthless, execution is everything.

— Scott Adams

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

— Walt Disney

I'm not sure about my design work every time.

— Michael Bierut

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

— Albert Camus

All the old fellows stole our best ideas.

— Frederic Goudy

Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers

— Keith Duckworth

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great,

— Jonathan Ive

My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.

— Elsie de Wolfe

“With every choice you create the life you’ll live; with every decision you design it.”

— Mollie Marti

“Style is a matter of taste, design a matter of principles.”

— Thomas Church

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

— Neil Young

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

— Charles Eames

I've always liked working with an archetypal design, something functional.

— Grayson Perry

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern…

— Thomas Paine

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

— Ai Weiwei

The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is…

— Alexander Wang

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into…

— Howard Rheingold

The biggest challenge is not coming up with the stunt, the biggest challenge is designing a sequence around it that sort of…

— Christopher McQuarrie

The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has…

— Marc Newson

When writing for the page, the focus is on the design - how the words appear on the page. I try to…

— Rupi Kaur

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according…

— Elsie de Wolfe

When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a…

— Tinker Hatfield

Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In…

— Stan Lee

The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little…

— Glenn McQuaid

Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led…

— Empedocles

One of the great things about design is that it's truly international. No one in the design industry would say, "This country…

— Marc Newson

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

Venus [Williams] has an amazing line; I love her collection. I'm always at her office. She has an interior design company and…

— Serena Williams

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often…

— Yves Behar

Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.

— B. J. Fogg

Think 8 hours, work 2 hours.

— Mirko Ilic

Architecture in general is frozen music.

— Anonymous

I am always locked in my design studio.

— Valentino Garavani

I look in my closet, and if I need it, I design it.

— Donna Karan

Design is something you have to put your hand to,

— I. M. Pei

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

— Dennis Conner

The design industry is really pathetic.

— Marc Newson