Design Quotes
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Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
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Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.
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Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.
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There are unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
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When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.
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Leigh Bowery created outfits that made him look deformed, which was very brave. I believe this was the main thing that gave Leigh his edge. His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.
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On the value of blind shots to golf course design.
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There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have to focus on that and throw the rest away.
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I would like to design what people generally call streetwear. I'd like to dress skateboarders, or whatever the older equivalent of skateboarders are. I pay more attention to that stuff than anyone would ever imagine because I'm watching what the designers do.
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I like playing sport. I'm a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.
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Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.
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Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we have a responsibility to pay attention to the design of the space where we assemble regularly. In the emerging culture, darkness represents spirituality. We see this in Buddhist temples, as well as Catholic and Orthodox churches. Darkness communicates that something serious is happening.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.
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Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.
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The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought of, what wouldn't be here? That's a lost art.
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If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.
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If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.
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I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.
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We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design
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And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?
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Think more design less.
