Design famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….
-- A. S. Byatt -
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
-- Aaron Betsky -
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
-- Aaron Copland -
The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.
-- Aaron Patzer -
Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
-- Abdallah II -
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
-- Abraham Clark -
Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.
-- Abraham de Moivre -
There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
-- Achille Castiglioni -
Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’
-- Achille Castiglioni -
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
-- Adam Osborne -
Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
-- Adam Savage -
I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
-- Adolf Galland -
Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.
-- Adrian Bejan -
The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…
-- Adrian Bejan -
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
-- Adrian Forty -
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.
-- Adrian Frutiger -
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.
-- Adrian Frutiger -
From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.
-- Adrian Frutiger -
I always want to design a frame that’s open to everyone. I don’t see art as a secret code.
-- Ai Weiwei -
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
-- Ai Weiwei -
No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
-- Alan Cooper -
If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
-- Alan Cooper -
Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'
-- Alan Cooper -
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
-- Alan Cooper -
Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
-- Alan Kay -
The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
-- Alan Kay -
Note to Self - Thoughts design my energy! My thoughts WILL design the energy that moves me!
-- Alan Rufus -
And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
-- Alan Shepard -
We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.
-- Alan Shepard -
Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.
-- Alan Turing -
I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.
-- Alanis Morissette -
It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion,
-- Alber Elbaz -
Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.
-- Alber Elbaz -
Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?
-- Alber Elbaz -
Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.
-- Albert Allen Bartlett -
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
-- Albert Camus -
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
-- Albert Camus -
The best design is the simplest one that works.
-- Albert Einstein -
Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer.
-- Albert Hadley -
So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary.
-- Albert Hadley -
An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.
-- Albert Hadley -
Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.
-- Albert Hadley -
After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
-- Albert Hadley -
Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing.
-- Albert Hadley -
I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and an ability to articulate what they want from the finished project, make the designer's job easier.
-- Albert Hadley -
Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.
-- Albert Hadley -
Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality
-- Albert Hadley -
The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.
-- Albert Hadley -
Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment...
-- Albert Hadley -
When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking; decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring.
-- Albert Hadley -
To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it.
-- Albert Hadley -
We're all collectors by nature. But if you're talking about an orderly life, there has to be a stop sign somewhere. Building a collection requires a strong constitution and the ability to resist.
-- Albert Hadley -
Deep downy upholstery is absolutely what I've always been about.
-- Albert Hadley -
You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.
-- Albert Hadley -
A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.
-- Alec Issigonis -
An expert is someone who tells you why you can't do something.
-- Alec Issigonis -
I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings - because our own personal emissions are just the tip of a vast iceberg of energy and resources consumed far from our view.
-- Alex Steffen -
The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.
-- Alexander Girard -
If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job
-- Alexander Isley -
Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more.
-- Alexander Isley -
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.
-- Alexander Markovich Polyakov -
There is no better designer than nature
-- Alexander McQueen -
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
-- Alexander Pope -
To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!
-- Alexander Pope -
If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.
-- Alexander Wang -
I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.
-- Alexander Wang -
The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'
-- Alexander Wang -
Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
-- Alexander Wang -
Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure
-- Alison Bechdel -
Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
-- Alison Gopnik -
On the value of blind shots to golf course design.
-- Alister MacKenzie -
To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
-- Alvar Aalto -
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
-- Alvar Aalto -
All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.
-- Amar Bose -
When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness.
-- Amari Cooper -
Science only answers 'How?' Religion only answers 'Why?' The two combined is the true design, So respect to God cause He drew the lines.
-- Amir Mohamed -
If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.
-- Amory Lovins -
By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.
-- Amory Lovins -
I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.
-- Amy Lee -
So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.
-- Amy Waldman -
I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.
-- Andree Putman -
Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.
-- Andree Putman -
God makes it clear that his image bearers must live in dynamic communion with one another, thereby discovering and celebrating the good gift of one's own gender and that of the other. With a cross-shaped lens, we behold the beauty of man for woman and woman for man. None of us has ever lost that original design. No matter how broken we have become, we have never lost the potential to be good gifts for others!
-- Andrew Comiskey -
My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and the observer. To seek freedom through significant form and design rather than through the diversion of so-called free and accidental brush handling.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.
-- Andy Clark -
Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened.
-- Andy Serkis -
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
-- Andy Warhol -
Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.
-- Ang Lee -
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
-- Anna Quindlen -
I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.
-- Anne Lamott
