Design Quotes

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
Jean Cocteau

Life, Ideas, Seems

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Life, Point, Lucky

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
Andrew Wyeth

Balance, Careful, Motion

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
Jim Henson

Acting, Theatre, Interested

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.
Jim Henson

Work, Fun, Rock

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
Camille Paglia

Past, Reality, Free

I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court.
Maria Sharapova

Fashion, Off, Both

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
Mikhail Kalashnikov

Different, Path, Tried

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

Different, Film, Summer

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.
Kate Moss

Love, School, Fashion

I help design my own tennis clothes.
Maria Sharapova

Help, Tennis, Clothes

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
Maria Sharapova

Young, Making, Loved

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
Vera Wang

Woman, Thinking, She

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
Vera Wang

Attitude, Woman, Point

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
Mary Astell

Truth, Government, Lie

Interior design is a business of trust.
Venus Williams

Trust, Business, Interior

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
Calvin Klein

Rather, Run, Company

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
John Malkovich

Mean, Build, Buildings

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.
John Malkovich

Another, Details

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
John Malkovich

School, Few, Started

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
Vera Wang

Love, Today, Actually

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.
Tony Campolo

Nature, God, Made

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
Alexander McQueen

Different, Clothes, Dress

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
Alexander McQueen

I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
Alexander McQueen

Late, Cause, Italians

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