Body Quote by Rei Kawakubo

When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.

— Tana French

We used to make patterns in the dirt, hanging our feet off the horse-drawn farm equipment. We made endless hourglass figures that I now…

— Ruth Asawa

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

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at…

— Lucinda Childs

About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into…

— Steve Yegge

I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.

— Michael Hansmeyer

No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll…

— Alexander Wang

You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.

— Twyla Tharp

It's rare that I'm not at work on some sort of craft project. I've often enthused about the need to make things; how it…

— David Rakoff

I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from…

— Eva Hesse

Certain materials suggest ideas and ways of working.

— David Batchelor

I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.

— Jamila Woods