Design Quotes
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"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."
"I’ll cut jewels in the shape of crumpled-up pieces of paper. Her wedding ring may look like my 33rd attempt at my marriage vows."
"The last time somebody pointed out that cowboys ride horses, not tricycles, I shot him. Of course, I waited until another gunslinger gunned him down, but nevertheless, I still shot him."
"To make my meal in a box taste better, I decided to tweak the logo, rather than the ingredients."
"It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.[Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005]"
"Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality."
"The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration."
"Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity."
"I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job."
"Women should have nipples on their butts. From a design perspective, I think it would revolutionize the fashion industry."
"Think of yourself as a brand. You need to be remembered. What will they remember you for? What defines you? If you have it in you, do something that defines you. Invent something, develop a unique skill, get noticed for something — it creates a talking point."
"Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite."
"BREAKING NEWS: You're awesome and designed for success; live this day accordingly!"
"Discover a purpose that gives you passion. Develop a plan that makes you persistent. Design a preparation and motivates you to optimize your potentials. Do it because you love it!"
"I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it."
"Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live."
"I won't give up my day job of design."
"They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese."
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."
"The artist in me cries out for design."
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."
"Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next."
"Good design is good business."
"Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people."
"The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living."
"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones."
"The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line."
"Sacred spaces can be created in any environment."
"Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input."
"Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist."
"Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it."
"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design."
"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."
"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."
"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings."
"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."
"About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs."
"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need."
"This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it."
"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space."
"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do."
"Design is everything. Everything!"
"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."
"The primary factor is proportions."
"I design for the woman who loves being a woman."
"Good design doesn't date."
"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality."
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