Design Quotes · Page 43

Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

— Alber Elbaz

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

— Dorothea Dix

Dress designing . . . is to me not a profession but an art,

— Elsa Schiaparelli

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

— Boris Beizer

Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

— David Bromstad

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

— Elaine Dundon

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

— Kenzo Tange

Every time I meet with the CEO of a big laptop company, they tell me they 'studied' my design.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top…

— Tadao Ando

As far as preference between fall and spring collections, I have none that I prefer to design. With fall you have a…

— Oscar de la Renta

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

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing…

— Fred Thompson

I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails…

— Anonymous

[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process…

— Michael Hansmeyer

Sound and sound design has always been very important to my approach to film, because it is a more subversive and allusive…

— Larry Fessenden

For me, being Christian Armenian, born into the Islamic culture in Iran and then, at the age of 13, being sent to…

— Tony Shafrazi

I had an argument with my students on why they want to present their work in an iBook, it's like your sister…

— Louise Wilson

Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple…

— Ben Parr

Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading…

— Colin Farrell

As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so…

— Alvin Lustig

After I went on 'Drag Race,' I was allowed to do so many things. I was allowed to do theater, commercial work,…

— Sharon Needles

We have always thought about design as being so much more than just the way something looks. It's the whole thing: the…

— Jonathan Ive

It is not the natural movement of film that gives the objects their expression, but the artistic movement, that is to say,…

— Hans Richter

It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize.

— Ray Davies

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

— Philippe Starck

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?

— Neri Oxman

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

— Lillian Hellman

Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.

— Van Day Truex

Sundance Supply has a neat material calculator and free greenhouse designs-Great Prices!

— Shane Smith

There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material…

— Salvatore Ferragamo

The modern military justice system is by design a body incapable of blind justice.

— Kerry Kennedy

Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me.

— Dave Morin

Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company

— Christopher Bailey

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

— Charles Eames

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

— Norman Foster

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

— Neil Gaiman

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

— Brenda Laurel

Doing something a long time does not mean you're good. It only means you've done it a long time.

— Ed Benguiat