Douglas Wilson Quotes

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

Douglas Wilson

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• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Design

• Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Like
  • Design
  • Act

• No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Lose

• The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Important
  • Design

• When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Style

• Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Why
  • Think
  • Young

• At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Great
  • Want
  • Design

• There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Design
  • More
  • Industrial

• Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Design
  • Responsible
  • Radical

• Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Design
  • Easy
  • Performance

• Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Design
  • Safety
  • Safe

• Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Design

• I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

  

  Kate Moss
  • School
  • Love
  • Fashion

• I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Proud
  • Design
  • Projects

• Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Good
  • Design
  • Evolution

• All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Business
  • Design

• I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Real
  • Value
  • Design

• My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

  

  Margot Kidder

• When you're in L.A., and you're making movies and that kind of stuff, you don't really get a sense sometimes, I think, what the fans are like.

  

  Kevin Heffernan

• I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Night
  • Friend
  • Wife

• I think what I have is straightforwardness, unabashedness rather than charm.

  

  Nicholas Haslam
  • Think
  • Charm

• I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • Design