Achille Castiglioni Quotes
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
Naomi Watts -
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 -
When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
Narciso Rodriguez -
People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
Calvin Klein -
There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
Victor Papanek -
I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
Zaha Hadid
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Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'
Yves Behar -
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 -
Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
Camille Paglia -
Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
Nate Berkus -
The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own. The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.
Douglas Wilson
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I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.
Alek Wek -
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles Eames -
You can't have a single design for all cities. The look and feel of the streetlights are very important.
Frans van Houten -
I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.
Jamie Wyeth -
Great design... you won't have a business today without great design.
Angela Ahrendts -
I think it is very hard to design in colours you don't feel right about.
Jenny Packham
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I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.
Barbara Mandrell -
I always saw law as a performance, just like being on a stage.
Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham -
I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.
Paul Thomas Anderson -
I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.
Larry Harvey -
Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’
Achille Castiglioni