Design Quotes

Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

There is no better designer than nature

There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material.

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

To create, one must first question everything.

Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.

Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

Great design is serious, not solemn

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology.

Everything is as it should be. God's design is perfect.

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.

Space is the breath of art.

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.

You are what you are seen to be.

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.

Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.

To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

Good design is ubiquitous and forever.

Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.