Design Quotes

• I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.

  

  Michael Graves
  • Thought
  • Matter
  • Stayed

• In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

  

  Plato
  • Democracy
  • Dwell
  • Freeman

• Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Design
  • Everyday

• The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Technology
  • Attitude
  • Architecture

• I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • People
  • Work
  • Quality

• I've always loved fashion design. I love drawing and creating looks and styling.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Drawing

• There’s not only one good solution for a design dilemma.

  

  Alexa Hampton
  • Design
  • Solution
  • Dilemma

• Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

  

  Leonard Baskin
  • Art
  • Design
  • Graphic

• Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Design may be a solution to some industrial problems.

  

  Charles Eames
  • May
  • Design

• To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Dream
  • Design

• We basically built a pricing model that surgically identified what people wanted to pay us for and what they didn't want to pay us for. One of the things we figured out early on was that we could create value for people by creating a product that allowed them to design something that they couldn't design without us.

  

  Alexa Hirschfeld
  • People
  • Value
  • Model

• If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• One of the criticisms we get is, 'Does the world need more plastic crap?' But you have to look beyond the plastic crap, to the design, to the experience, to the empowering nature of the MakerBot and the community.

  

  Bre Pettis
  • World
  • Experience
  • Nature

• Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.

  

  Ben Hunt
  • Art
  • Communication
  • Creating

• I've been fascinated with interior design for as long as I can remember.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Design

• You have to have talent to design and to dress thousands of women or millions of women around the world. And you know very well, the only thing they want is to look more beautiful.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• We are actors who show up for work in our sloppy gear, and we've got this extraordinary tailor. It's someone else who's done the design; someone else who's cut the suit; someone else who's measured it. Basically, your job is to just wear it.

  

  Colin Firth
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• Is there a homeless guy built in to the design of Dunkin' Donuts? ...There'll be an entrance here... a deranged lunatic here.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Guy
  • Homeless
  • Lunatic

• I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Design
  • Badass

• Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

  

  Louis Kahn
  • Design

• Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't have a testing team. I did all the testing myself. And there was no project methodology or schedule that, there was the notion of coming to a close means testing a lot at the end and making very few changes.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Design
  • Computer
  • Basic

• It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Negroes

• Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.

  

  James Blake
  • Design
  • Heartfelt

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