Design Quotes
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What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't think of her without imagining her with a hat or a crown. I would, of course, love to design one for her.
Philip Treacy
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Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.
Lincoln Kirstein
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I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.
Luke Macfarlane
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I love Ikea: it's non-design, but it works.
Louise Wilson
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I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.
Donald Norman
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In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.
Saul Griffith
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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn
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Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.
David McFadden
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Design may be a solution to some industrial problems.
Charles Eames
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A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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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
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I've always loved fashion design. I love drawing and creating looks and styling.
Lily Collins
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The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.
Colleen Atwood
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For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.
Colleen Atwood
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I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.
William Landay
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Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.
Leonard Baskin
