Design Quotes
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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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I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.
Bonnie Wright
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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
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
Edgardo Osorio
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
Yves Behar
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I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.
Martin Parr
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
Taylor Schilling
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
Camille Paglia
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
Vera Wang
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
Malorie Blackman
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The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts: … I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.
Fred Brooks
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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson
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In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.
Martin Jacques
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I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
Philip Johnson
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I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.
Olivier Theyskens
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Graphic design is a hobby that I started with back in 2010-2011, which I am still doing today. And because of that, I was able to design my own stuff and designed my own logo.
Alan Walker
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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.
James Cameron
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In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
Orville Wright
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If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.
William McDonough
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For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.
Christian Lacroix
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The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.
Fritz Zwicky
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I won't give up my day job of design.
Kathy Ireland
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.
Yves Behar