Design - Quotes & Sayings

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

Herbert Simon

There's a big gaping hole in the EDM space for songwriting. It's one thing to learn how to be a great sound designer and become big just on sound design. Especially if you're in the dubstep category, it's like, how much fatter and more interesting can you make those drops.

Steve Aoki

Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?

Timothy Morton

I went to high school in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I felt pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. It just took time away from my doing things on the Internet - like creating clans in Quake II or starting a Web design nonprofit. In school, I was just a kid. Online, I had authority.

Alexis Ohanian

I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that.

David Carson

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

Jason Statham

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

Tom Watson

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

Barbara Kruger

Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.

Barbara Kruger

At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time.

Roger Staubach

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

Debbie Allen

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

Nicole Richie

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

Nicole Richie

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

Tadao Ando

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

Tadao Ando

We don't want to be a design line. Ultimately, we want to be a platform that houses many design aesthetics.

Alexa Hirschfeld

We basically built a pricing model that surgically identified what people wanted to pay us for and what they didn't want to pay us for. One of the things we figured out early on was that we could create value for people by creating a product that allowed them to design something that they couldn't design without us.

Alexa Hirschfeld

I think it's very common that scientists or technical people have an artistic side. Sometimes they are very accomplished musicians. Sometimes they have very fine tastes according to art or design. And often, they've spent a big chunk of their childhood or they're growing-up years trying to get in very good at those activities.

Hope Jahren

By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences.

David A. Bednar

The opportunity ahead of us in terms of transforming how we design and build, how we manufacture, is even greater than some of the product innovation that we're going to bring to the table.

Dennis Muilenburg

I have always loved aeroplanes and spacecraft and the design element.

Dennis Muilenburg

I was in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, on a scholarship. I was - still am - an artist. They were looking for an actor for 'Take a Giant Step,' and a producer liked my look and asked if I could act. I said, 'Yep!' Then I got into acting more or less just to make money for paints and canvases.

Billy Dee Williams

In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.

Nancy Gibbs

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

Lawrence M. Krauss

By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.

Lawrence M. Krauss

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

Ryan Lochte

There's no one person that can provide all the insights I need to run the business. There are so many aspects to WeWork: Digital, real estate, operations, space, and design. I pick and choose people who can help in each aspect.

Adam Neumann

It takes a real designer to design for real women.

Leslie Jones

The big deal about the Internet design was you could have an arbitrary large number of networks so that they would all work together.

Vint Cerf

My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection.

Rei Kawakubo

I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.

Jamie Wyeth

One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.

Mary Quant

For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.

Mary Quant

I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.

John Rocha

I help design my own tennis clothes.

Maria Sharapova

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

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

Maria Sharapova

I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.

Renzo Piano

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

Renzo Piano

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

Renzo Piano

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

Betsey Johnson

The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.

Matt Mullenweg

I design from instinct. It's the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed. Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut.

Donna Karan

I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.

Jasmine Guinness

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

Douglas Coupland

I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design - not making it, just looking at it. I'm always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things.

Kevin Bacon

I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.

Martin Parr

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

Building design isn't trendy.

Kevin McCloud

I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.

Diana Ross