Design Quotes

• I always try to design fashion that is interesting and innovative, and I like to break traditions and challenge people's expectations.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Fashion

• I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Death
  • Design

• Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

  

  Ellen Lupton
  • Design
  • Act

• I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.

  

  David Rockwell
  • Good
  • Design

• You can never let your data dictate design. If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating.

  

  Aza Raskin
  • Design
  • Dictate
  • Innovating

• I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Personality
  • Eccentric
  • Terrific

• Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Life
  • She
  • Fashion

• I really love muscle cars. I don't think people might realize that about me. I really want to go to an auto auction and blow my life savings on a Camaro. They have such design around them, such panache.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • People
  • Life
  • Blow

• Kirk Kerkorian has not been through the design dome.

  

  Bob Lutz
  • Design
  • Dome

• All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Art

• I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • People
  • Different
  • Clothes

• I believe that to further strategic growth and development via design, we need to have a set of public design policies.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Believe
  • Growth
  • Design

• The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Today
  • Beautiful
  • Dream

• Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

  

  Paul Rand
  • Bad
  • Design
  • Date

• Obamacare's design flaws were not the fault of the American people.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • People
  • American
  • Design

• I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design.

  

  Chris Squire Yes
  • Design

• Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.

  

  Alvaro Siza Vieira
  • Design
  • Capture
  • Nuances

• Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Together

• The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Design
  • Mac

• I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.

  

  Dries van Noten
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Design

• We can't think in terms of designing products that we throw over the wall to customers, but instead, we need to design products that are upgradable and maintainable and that can be mined for materials and components that can be reused.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Design
  • Wall

• Developing games for the PC and consoles is all about everything and the kitchen sink. In many ways, you don't have design decisions to make. You do it all. So I enjoy going back to making decisions about what's important as I'm working on a game.

  

  John Carmack
  • Important
  • Game
  • Kitchen

• Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Music
  • Important
  • Design

• I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

  

  Jaime Pressly
  • Design

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