Design Quote by Ettore Sottsass

“You’ll be knocking on trouble’s front freakin’ door if you’re interested in him, Denver.”

— Lynetta Halat

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

— Lester Beall

Work without interest is imprisonment. Even if you aren't super-passionate about your work, you've got to at least be interested in it. When you…

— Melchor Lim

I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

— Paloma Picasso

I started very early. I started to be interested in design when I was 14 years old, basically, and before I was just like…

— Massimo Vignelli

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

— Ettore Sottsass

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

— Ettore Sottsass

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

— Ettore Sottsass

...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we…

— Ettore Sottsass

It is important to realize that whatever we do or design has iconographic references, it comes from somewhere; any form is always metaphorical, never…

— Ettore Sottsass

When I began designing machines I also began to think that these objects, which sit next to each other and around people, can influence…

— Ettore Sottsass

...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to…

— Sister Parish

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse,…

— William Morris

Perfectionism is the death of a great room.

— Anne McDonald

Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.

— Van Day Truex