Design Quotes · Page 42

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.

— Albert Hadley

The first design I created was a circular skirt for my Barbie when I was 7.

— Karen Walker

“Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.”

— Tate Linden

Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.

— Bruce Mau

Studying technical design and art gave me the ability to see things in 3-D.

— Anastasia Soare

Right and wrong do not exist in graphic design. There is only effective and non-effective communication.

— Peter Bilak

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

— Lee Kun-hee

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

— Will Durant

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates…

— Mike Davidson

I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and…

— Van Day Truex

We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of…

— Glenford Myers

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture,…

— Tadao Ando

“I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs…

— Rebecca West

Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out…

— Edward Tufte

Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many…

— Tim Ferriss

Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in…

— Cynthia Breazeal

But all provisions that He (God) has made for the gratification of our senses…are much inferior to the provision, the wonderful provision…

— John Adams

He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I…

— Irving Stone

There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate…

— George Nakashima

Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is…

— Warren Berger

The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for…

— Laurence Sterne

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or…

— Florence Welch

Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Western design houses have been exploring China in terms of investment for well over a decade.

— Anna Wintour

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

— Roger Penrose

Design isn't risky - change is. Good design mitigates that risk.

— Jeffrey Veen

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

— Peter Shumlin

In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

— Mahnaz Afkhami

I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.

— Rob Kardashian

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

— Paula Scher

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

— Eva Zeisel

Accident is natures way of starting a design; design is a mans way of looking at the accidents.

— Thiruman Archunan

The dreaded phrase in design circles is 'show and tell.'

— David Carson

It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.

— John Romero

Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

— Yves Behar

I'm not into fashion, but I like design. I wear the same shoes every day.

— Tyler, The Creator

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

— Samuel Florman

Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

— William McDonough

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this

— Michael Graves