Design Quotes
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.
Michelangelo -
Unbelief makes a man guilty of the vilest contempt of Christ, and the whole design of redemption by Him.
John Flavel
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Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.
Luca Guadagnino -
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.
Nan Fairbrother -
Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.
Donna Karan -
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 -
The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building and the builder's list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.
Iain McGilchrist -
Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.
Stephen Sondheim
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There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.
Kelly Wearstler -
I love design.
Venus Williams -
In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.
Nate Berkus -
A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.
Douglas Wilson -
We're still finalizing the design and selecting the contractors. (The design) is still shifting and changing.
Mike Peters Big Country -
I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny. Kenny has a big following as it is, and even Lady Gaga has asked Kenny to design dresses for her. But Kenny isn't very keen on, well, shall we say, extreme women. He likes someone that women all over the world can identify with.
Barry Humphries
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Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.
H. L. Mencken -
I very rarely wear suits, and only make one or two per season, so it's about wanting exceptional clothes that don't feel stiff. Fabric and garment washing are a big part of my design process for that reason. Everything needs to feel lived-in and comfortable.
Yigal Azrouël -
The woman I design for is very curious. She loves fashion, but she also is passionate about what is happening around the world.
Prabal Gurung -
I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
James Dyson -
The payoff of a customer-centric approach to software and digital product design is substantial and long-lasting for both companies and their customers.
Alan Cooper -
A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
Kent Beck
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I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'
Dayo Okeniyi -
There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death.
Mario Botta -
The system should not have failed in this way, it should have held together. And there's either design problems or as we are saying, voltage support weaknesses in this system that have to be addressed.
Charles Curtis -
The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
Venus Williams