Design Quotes

3017 Design quotes by 1636 unique authors

Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged… — Abraham Lincoln
The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good design is not an applied veneer. — Raymond Loewy
Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There… — Charles Francis Richter
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the… — Michael Shermer
My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments:… — Isaac Newton
Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine… — William James
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. — Donna Karan
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual… — Massimo Vignelli
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand… — Richard Dawkins
The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea). — Michael Shermer
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is… — George Will
There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned… — Paul Davies
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all… — Charles Darwin
Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue — Karl Lagerfeld
The visual image is a kind of tripwire for the emotions. — Diane Ackerman
The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it. — Michael Behe
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but… — Henry David Thoreau
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. — Aaron Copland
He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my… — Irving Stone
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a… — Isaac D'Israeli
The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative… — Jonathan Ive

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