Popular Quotes on Design
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| S.No | Quotes | Author |
| 1 | The details are not the details. They make the design. | Charles Eames |
| 2 | Luck is the residue of design. | Branch Rickey |
| 3 | I don’t design clothes, I design dreams. | Ralph Lauren |
| 4 | Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. | Herbert A. Simon |
| 5 | Design is not for philosophy it’s for life. | Issey Miyake |
| 6 | We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us. | Anne-Marie Willis |
| 7 | Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful. | Dieter Rams |
| 8 | A shoe is not only a design, but it’s a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you’re going to move is quite dictated by your shoes. | Christian Louboutin |
| 9 | Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated. | Paul Rand |
| 10 | Good design doesn’t date. | Harry Seidler |
| 11 | Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. | Steve Jobs |
| 12 | A camel is a horse designed by committee. | Alec Issigonis |
| 13 | Color does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it. | Pierre Bonnard |
| 14 | Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. | Elon Musk |
| 15 | A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| 16 | Design is people. | Jane Jacobs |
| 17 | I think it’s really important to design things with a kind of personality. | Marc Newson |
| 18 | A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| 19 | Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution. | Ivan Chermayeff |
| 20 | The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair. | Leo Fender |
| 21 | Good design doesn’t date. Bad design does. | Paul Rand |
| 22 | Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. | Philip Johnson |
| 23 | Design is everything. Everything! | Paul Rand |
| 24 | You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. | Walt Disney |
| 25 | A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. | Niklaus Wirth |
| 26 | Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. | Charles Eames |
| 27 | Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. | Louis Kahn |
| 28 | Accessible design is good design. | Steve Ballmer |
| 29 | The primary factor is proportions. | Arne Jacobsen |
| 30 | Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. | Charles Eames |
| 31 | Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. | Donna Karan |
| 32 | Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health. | Robert Evans |
| 33 | The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. | Harry Bertoia |
| 34 | To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. | Milton Glaser |
| 35 | Fashion fades, only style remains the same. | Coco Chanel |
| 36 | The proper study of mankind is the science of design. | Herbert A. Simon |
| 37 | Space is the breath of art. | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| 38 | I’ve learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality. | Claudia Schiffer |
| 39 | Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. | Christopher Alexander |
| 40 | Design is an unknown. | Geoffrey Beene |
| 41 | About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. | Manolo Blahnik |
| 42 | Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. | Miguel de Cervantes |
| 43 | Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep. | Le Corbusier |
| 44 | Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. | Steve Jobs |
| 45 | I believe in empty spaces; they’re the most wonderful thing. | Anselm Kiefer |
| 46 | Good design is good business. | Thomas J. Watson |
| 47 | Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. | Peter York |
| 48 | If I have a style, I am not aware of it. | Michael Graves |
| 49 | I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. | Anna Quindlen |
| 50 | Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. | George Santayana |
| 51 | I don’t think there is anything wrong with white space. I don’t think it’s a problem to have a blank wall. | Annie Leibovitz |
| 52 | Good design is good business. | Ian Schrager |
| 53 | Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It’s about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth – intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It’s actually a beautiful feeling. | Peter Zumthor |
| 54 | Sacred spaces can be created in any environment. | Christy Turlington |
| 55 | Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. | Coco Chanel |
| 56 | I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn’t have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn’t have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then. | John Maeda |
| 57 | This is what I like about being a designer: You can’t really get it until you see it. | Isaac Mizrahi |
| 58 | Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers. | Alexander McQueen |
| 59 | It’s all in how you arrange the thing… the careful balance of the design is the motion. | Andrew Wyeth |
| 60 | A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. | Edith Head |