Design Quote by David K. Brown

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

— Emil Ruder

So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I…

— Tadashi Shoji

“The opposite of creativity is compliance to external imposition, having for one reason or another to bend to the will of another.”

— Keith Oatley

To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder…

— Josef Albers

“unilateral sense of communication and cooperation, rather coercively, nay, even menacingly demand”

— Aindra Das

“Anyone who doesn’t design, accepts to be designed.”

— Giulio Carlo Argan

“Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred. The matter in controversy is the existence of design in the Universe, and it…

— Christopher Hitchens

“To express open creativity, you first need to create your own space of seclusion.”

— Anthony Liccione

To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design is to…

— Robert Bringhurst

to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to…

— Alain de Botton

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

— Maya Lin

“You are designing for people the way you would like them to be, not for the way they really are.” When”

— Donald A. Norman