Design Quotes · Page 48

I used to design my Barbie dolls' clothes. I used to be doing hair.

— Sexyy Red

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

— Frank Gehry

You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.

— Ed Paschke

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

— Samuel Richardson

Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.

— Kelly Wearstler

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

— Adrian Forty

It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.

— Sepp Holzer

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

— Alan Cooper

It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

— William H. Whyte

If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a…

— Jack Nicklaus

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had…

— John Dyer

I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design…

— Dawn Richard

I originally thought I would be going into wedding dresses. I wanted to create gowns, especially for weddings. I liked the idea…

— Ashley Nell Tipton

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to…

— John Malkovich

Once we have a nice, conceptual sketch and rendering and design approved, then it's really about pinpointing what's functional and what's not,…

— James Pearse Connelly

Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely…

— James P Hackett

It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design…

— Don DeLillo

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing…

— Michael Kors

The math you need for most of finance is ninth-grade algebra, and most people feel reasonably comfortable with that. But I think…

— Sal Khan

When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person,…

— Jaron Lanier

I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada,…

— Flume

We go to movies to be taken away to another place, to be dazzled, to dream, to hopefully be filled with wonder.…

— Lee Unkrich

Building places that are worth living in and worth caring about require a certain attention to detail, and of a particular kind…

— James Howard Kunstler

Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

— Roger Martin

By the year 2000 every secretary will have a favorite typeface.

— Roger Black

I wouldn't mind collaborating with anybody, but I don't want to design anything, I'm not a fashion designer.

— ASAP Rocky

Whatever the trend might be, I'm thinking of the Woman for whom I'm designing it.

— Stuart Weitzman

You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty

— Yohji Yamamoto

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

— Robert L. Peters

I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

— Isabella Rossellini

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

— Walt Disney

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

— Barry Barish

Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

— Pablo Picasso

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

— Tom Peters

If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

— Jonathan Ive

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

— T. S. Eliot

Gucci is not a fashion or a design house, it was always a trademark.

— Maurizio Gucci

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

— Jake Barton

Working in fashion and design was a childhood dream of mine.

— Kendra Scott