Design Quotes and Sayings
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Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. James Randolph Adams
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When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. Tadao Ando
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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical. Giorgio Armani
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Accessible design is good design. Steve Ballmer
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Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. Tyra Banks
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Design is an unknown. Geoffrey Beene
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. Harry Bertoia
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. Manolo Blahnik
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Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. Erma Bombeck
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Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. Pierre Bonnard
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. Miguel de Cervantes
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Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution. Ivan Chermayeff
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Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. Robert Collier
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I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate. Mike Davidson
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I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure. Robin Day
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. Walt Disney
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Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. Charles Eames
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To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need. Charles Eames
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The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. Arthur Erickson
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The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair. Leo Fender
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The artist in me cries out for design. Robert Frost
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I design for the woman who loves being a woman. Diane von Furstenberg
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Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design. Stephen Gardiner
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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past. Charles J. Givens
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To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. Milton Glaser
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So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward. Genevieve Gorder
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. Edith Head
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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus
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Design is people. Jane Jacobs
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The primary factor is proportions. Arne Jacobsen
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. Steve Jobs
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Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input. Ron Johnson
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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. Louis Kahn
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What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together. Mitchell Kapor
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I don't design clothes, I design dreams. Ralph Lauren
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I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. Daniel Libeskind
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. Henri Matisse
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Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one. David McFadden
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Design is not for philosophy it's for life. Issey Miyake
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This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it. Isaac Mizrahi
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I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality. Marc Newson
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In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone. Donald Norman
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I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. Anna Quindlen
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Design is everything. Everything! Paul Rand
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Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. Paul Rand
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Luck is the residue of design. Branch Rickey
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Good design doesn't date. Harry Seidler
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Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. Herbert Simon
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The proper study of mankind is the science of design. Herbert Simon
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Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. Kenzo Tange
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Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. Terence
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Sacred spaces can be created in any environment. Christy Turlington
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Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures. Jeffery Veen
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I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving. Jeffery Veen
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I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. Gianni Versace
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Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people. Thomas J. Watson
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Good design is good business. Thomas J. Watson
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A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. Niklaus Wirth
