Design Quotes · Page 26

All designers have a platform, an audience. Whether it's one or a million, it doesn't matter.

— Prabal Gurung

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

— Jonathan Ive

I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.

— Clemence Poesy

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

— Chip Kidd

With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch

— Marc Newson

I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real.

— Walt Disney

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want…

— Debbie Allen

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

— Plato

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that…

— Tony Fadell

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any…

— Joshua Foer

We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building…

— Albert Hadley

Dada has always been competitive and respected and I'm excited to design and promote a shoe that represents both of us so…

— Xzibit

For one thing, I don't teach graphic design ; I teach people to find their own strengths. Second, I don't hold back…

— Morteza Momayez

In the next 50 years, the increasing importance of designing spaces for human communication and interaction will lead to expansion in those…

— Terry Winograd

If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical,…

— Arnold Aronson

When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this…

— Hiroshi Sugimoto

Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being…

— Paul Davies

Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just…

— Cameron Sinclair

I had given a presentation on design and happiness for quite a long while at design conferences. I had found thinking about…

— Stefan Sagmeister

My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our…

— Steve Martin

I think that sometimes people don't understand that a costume that has to be worn every day and doesn't change the whole…

— Colleen Atwood

“As part of an effort to prod college seniors to get tetanus shots, a group of students was given a lecture meant…

— Gary Belsky

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

— Christian Louboutin

I was actually a communications major and had never done design.

— Joanna Gaines

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

— Philippe Starck

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

— Donald Berwick

Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

— Roger Martin

I Think the biggest design project anyone can have is their own life.

— Nix

Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.

— Brian Tracy

In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.

— Erno Rubik

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

— Ettore Sottsass

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.

— Ted Naifeh

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

— Sugata Mitra

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

— Christian Louboutin

It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

— Richard Steele

Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

— William A. Dembski

Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.

— Alison Gopnik