Design Quotes

• It might be a selfish choice, but I find it quite difficult to design for individuals and prefer the distance of larger schemes. It's the same reason why, as a designer, I don't do wedding dresses.

  

  John Rocha
  • Why
  • Distance
  • Selfish

• Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult.

  

  Christopher Rouse
  • Music
  • Free
  • Value

• I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Reality
  • Years
  • Design

• EmilyAnd her love to beCarved in a heartOn a berry treeBut it's only a little farewell lovespellTime to design a woman

  

  Laura Nyro
  • Design
  • Farewell

• 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
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Moving

• The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Curious

• We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

  

  Jacque Fresco
  • Society
  • Stop
  • Fighting

• 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
  • Home
  • House
  • Architecture

• The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the overall design.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Design
  • Architecture
  • Bridge

• In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Time
  • Power
  • Design

• Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • People
  • Good
  • Moments

• 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
  • Car
  • Design
  • Inspired

• A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

  

  Cristobal Balenciaga
  • Color
  • Musician
  • Harmony

• I wanted to design a museum in which everything would seem clear.

  

  Mario Botta
  • Design

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

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Design
  • More
  • Industrial

• As for design, I gravitate to traditional styles but mix it with an element of surprise. Whether it's a big sash bow in the back or an unexpected fabric, it all needs to work together.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • Work
  • Together
  • Design

• I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design when I couldn't afford to have a team and I didn't want to look like I was indie. I wanted to give fans the visual.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Art
  • History
  • Team

• But if we can’t help our latent biases, we can help our behavior in response to those instinctive reactions, which is why we work to design systems and processes that overcome that very human part of us all. Although the research may be unsettling, it is what we do next that matters most.

  

  James Comey
  • Work
  • Why
  • May

• I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

  

  Betsey Johnson
  • Why
  • Design

• I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Business
  • Design

• I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

  

  Philip Treacy
  • Mind
  • Design

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Team

• In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Nature
  • Design
  • Engineering

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