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Design Quotes by John Ruskin
- If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.
- No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
- Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.
- In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon…
- Not without design does God write the music of our lives.
- In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end…
- Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
- We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
- Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests.…
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- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks