Design Quotes · Page 55

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

— Tom Ford

I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.

— Damaris Phillips

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

— Anonymous

Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.

— Novalis

“every great entrepreneur is first and foremost a designer.”

— Peter Thiel

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

— Bill Reid

I don't have the time to design my own costumes, but I do give suggestions and style tips.

— Keerthy Suresh

Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.

— Bjarke Ingels

The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so…

— Sandra Bullock

Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.

— Alexa Hampton

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or…

— Steve Jobs

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

— Phillip E. Johnson

Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight…

— Philippe Starck

The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but…

— Ken Jennings

All great hotels should have stellar personalized service, a unique design that gives guests a sense of place, an excellent on-site restaurant,…

— Ivanka Trump

Australia has always put out some good design, particularly environmental graphics. I associate that with Australia, more so that a lot of…

— Michael Bierut

“She had baked a simple round vanilla sponge cake in two layers with crimson icing between the layers. Then she had coated…

— Gaile Parkin

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of…

— Rei Kawakubo

Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to.…

— Rick Poynor

In terms of bridal dress, I've tried everything. I've tried short, long, deconstructed, constructed, bustiers, working in fabrics, working in color. I've…

— Vera Wang

Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body…

— Anonymous

All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us.…

— Victor Papanek

Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I…

— Michael Arad

Logos are a graphic extension of the internal realities of a company.

— Saul Bass

My design preference tends towards warmth, comfort, and minimalism.

— Gauri Khan

Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

— Donald Knuth

You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

— Dorothy Draper

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

— John Ruskin

It is interesting to see what other designers do, and not work in a vacuum.

— Sonia Rykiel

“My boyfriend likes to fuck my brains out on our kitchen island. Which tile would you recommend for that?”

— Alice Clayton

Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

— Bruce Mau

Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design.

— Janine Turner

Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

— Robert L. Peters

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

— Philip Johnson

...in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery...

— John le Carre

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

— Leonard Baskin

“Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.”

— Richard Diaz

I make solutions that nobody wants to problems that don't exist.

— Alvin Lustig

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

— Vivienne Westwood