Design Quotes
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It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design.
Paul Davies
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I've always been very into interior design, and I can't stand to have anything in my apartment that I don't aesthetically love.
Betsey Johnson
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C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.
Cedric Price
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Always beware an unsigned architectural design.
Martin Filler
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I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.
Brian Selznick
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How do you convince somebody to host a stranger for the weekend? That's not a trivial thing. It's not something I think you can throw technology at, marketing at, or sales at. We threw design at it because that's all we knew, and in doing so, I feel like we brought a human touch to it, which is so needed.
Joe Gebbia
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People's live are expressed in little details....The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds - here are their books, the paintings they cherish, the music that soothes their souls.
Charlotte Moss
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What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.
Garry Winogrand
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I design from instinct. It's the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed. Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut.
Donna Karan
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I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach.
G-Eazy
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As soon as you accept the accidental effects, they are no longer accidents. They are necessity the part of yourself that you could not expect or design beforehand. Thus the realm of your creativity grows wider.
Kazuaki Tanahashi
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I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
Jim Henson
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...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller
Cedric Price
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I love to see technology from a design perspective and vice versa. I am a 'Desigineer.'
Pranav Mistry
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Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera.
Freddie Wong
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I always try to design fashion that is interesting and innovative, and I like to break traditions and challenge people's expectations.
Jonathan Anderson
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I design some of my own clothes now.
Kiernan Shipka
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When we launched If WeRanTheWorld, I said to my team, I want us to innovate in every aspect of how we design and operate this as a business venture, as much as the web platform itself - because I want us to design our own startup around the working lives that we would all like to live. Women and men alike.
Cindy Gallop
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You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
John Malkovich
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Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.
David Holmgren
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I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.
Eric Burdon
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The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.
Eric Maskin
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Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.
ASAP Rocky
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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