Design Quotes

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs

Looks, Works, Feels

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

Reality, Place, Wonderful

The artist in me cries out for design.
Robert Frost

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

Nothing, Away, Perfection

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
Erma Bombeck

Human, Sometimes, Figure

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson

Difficult, Easy, Prove

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

Children, Enough, Content

Good design is good business.
Thomas J. Watson

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

Dreams, Clothes

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.
Tyra Banks

Wanted, Next, Victim

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
Thomas J. Watson

Good, Business, Above

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Harry Bertoia

Good, Living, Same

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

Art, Simple, Single

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Herodotus

Men, Give, Goal

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Herbert Simon

Everyone, Action, Changing

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Arthur Erickson

Art, Between, Expression

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
Henri Matisse

After, Young, Personal

Luck is the residue of design.
Branch Rickey

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes

Great, Often, Danger

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.
Ron Johnson

Inspired, Point, View

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
Stephen Gardiner

Good, Problems, Buildings

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
Terence

Good, God, Makes

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.
Christy Turlington

Sacred, Spaces, Created

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
Pierre Bonnard

Color, Quality, Pleasant

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
Issey Miyake

Life, Philosophy

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