Design Quote by I. M. Pei Download Open image “You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.” — I. M. Pei ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Design Knowing
I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works. — Maurizio Cattelan Copy Share Image
It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use. — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate… — Dan Kiley Copy Share Image
It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see it as… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history is really… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
I didn't want to think about a project that I couldn't finish. That's a kind of temptation. One has to realize one's limitations. Why… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
At home, I have a wife, fortunately, and my children are all grown, and I have many grandchildren. I spend weekends with my grandchildren;… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit… — Giambattista Bodoni Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role. — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
