Design Quotes · Page 36

Italian design is a global excellence, on a par with food, culture, cinema, and, more generally, lifestyle.

— Paolo Gentiloni

The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Cisco has not and does not design products for the purpose of political censorship.

— Marc Chandler

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

— George Lois

Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical ...

— Kent Beck

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

— Anton Corbijn

“There is no design so good that it can't be messed up by bad implementation.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

— Rick Nielsen

I always love design but the more I designed for clients, the less I liked the process of designing for them. I…

— Jessica Hische

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make…

— Jonathan Ive

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design…

— Gabriel Basso

Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

— Edward Tufte

That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time…

— A. R. Rahman

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third…

— Ayrton Senna

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so…

— Jason Wu

They would find this House of Hades. They'd take the Doors of Death. And by the gods, if Leo had to design…

— Rick Riordan

I was very lucky to find a career which let me travel, sourcing stores in other countries, just the opportunities of the…

— Les Wexner

The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated…

— Paul Goldberger

All you have to do is pick up a baseball. It begs to you: throw me. If you took a year to…

— Dave Dravecky

The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time…

— Jean Vanier

In the case of 'Fish,' I did the writing, design, and code all at the same time, so the form and the…

— Robin Sloan

Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach…

— Jason Reitman

Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of…

— Martin Filler

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

— Liz Phair

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

— Ursula Andress

“A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.”

— Steven Pinker

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.

— Donald A. Norman

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

— Gianfranco Ferre

Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.

— Kenyon Cox

“Once you lose the discipline of functionality as a design guidepost, the imagination runs amok.”

— Yvon Chouinard

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

— Caterina Fake

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.

— Clement Mok

I am inspired to design experiences that people actually need and love to use.

— Tom Gruber

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

— Edward Tufte

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

— Cynthia Rowley

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

— Harry Bertoia

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

— Issey Miyake