Design Quotes

• I wouldn't like to live in a castle now, but I'd enjoy a visit to Restormel in Cornwall in its 13th century prime. It's a circular castle with the rooms built against the outer walls and quite intimate in size. Life there wouldn't follow the pattern of more classic castle design.

  

  Jo Beverley
  • Life
  • Live
  • Design

• In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Path
  • Smart
  • Marketing

• I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.

  

  Kanye West
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs

  

  Willard Fiske
  • Moving
  • Strange
  • Passages

• My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Art

• I am excited to partner with Aeropostale for my very own collection. It was a great experience to be able to work with them. Not only did I get to design an entire fashion line, but I got to do it at a great price point with quality clothes, both of which are very important to me.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • Work
  • Great
  • Important

• This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.

  

  John Jay
  • People
  • Country
  • Band

• I'd love to design a school.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • School
  • Love
  • Design

• In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

  

  William Shenstone
  • House
  • Opportunity
  • Garden

• Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

  

  Mark Parker
  • Design

• Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

  

  Baldassare Castiglione
  • Done
  • Effort
  • Design

• I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Believe
  • Design
  • Motherhood

• Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

  

  Charles James
  • Time
  • Good
  • Language

• Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Design

• The Intelligent Design movement starts with the recognition that 'In the beginning was the Word,' and 'In the beginning God created.' Establishing that point isn't enough, but it is absolutely essential to the rest of the gospel message.

  

  Phillip E. Johnson
  • God
  • Rest
  • Beginning

• I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Writing
  • Decision
  • Directors

• The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be designed with this variation of properties and relationship with the environment that can take part in the natural ecology.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Future
  • Relationship
  • Environment

• When I came to MIT, there were four rubrics: science, art, design, and technology. And as you entered your degree, whether it was a master's or a Ph.D., if you were a citizen in one domain, you were a traveler in the other.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Art
  • Science
  • Technology

• Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Journey
  • Delight
  • Envelope

• I studied video game design. The one thing I knew for sure about myself is I didn't want to study acting.

  

  Dylan Sprouse
  • Game
  • Study
  • Design

• The design of the new Civic is a big departure from the previous model, and its shape and features presented us with many manufacturing challenges. When you talk about the manufacturing of a vehicle like the new Civic, we want to meet the needs of the design team, while also improving production processes in terms of quality, safety, and effectiveness of the manufacturing process.

  

  Chris Poland Circle Jerks
  • Improving
  • Features
  • Departure

• They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

  

  Christian Lacroix
  • Design

• You can't refuse to move forward when you're educating in design, because that's what we're asking students to do the whole time.

  

  Louise Wilson
  • Time
  • Design

• After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Space
  • Focus
  • Design

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