Design Quotes
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Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
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Good design is not an applied veneer.
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I was probably born with some designing abilities.
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When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.
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There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
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Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.
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The designs are more about the whole thing rather than the details, and if I were to do the big shapes I do, color would maybe be too much. Pink or red would push it all over the edge.
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Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.
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Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.
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Never do anything yourself that you can hire someone else to do, especially if they can do it better.
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When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.
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To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.
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Design is too important to be left to designers.
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One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
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Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.
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At any given day you have to be ready with everything. It can be that the director says "this one's done and I need a new one." And you're like, "oh my god! I only have two months, no way!" So your design approach is completely different. You develop, let's say six things at the same time, and try to be ready everyday to give it away.
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I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is – you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks. And for the design of the jacket, I would sit with the people who made the clothes and tell them where I wanted a button or a buckle or a design.
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I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.
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Work for money, design for love.
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Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
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The strong appearance of design in nature allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious.
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After a person has discovered his divine design, it will lead to God’s direction for his life.
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Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.
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Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.
