429 private quotes tagged design

“People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.” — Marc Newson

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“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

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“Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.” — Tim Berners Lee

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“Interior design is a business of trust.” — Venus Williams

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“All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.” — Venus Williams

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“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.” — Tom Peters

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“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

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“Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.” — James Randolph Adams

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

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“Design is not making beauty; beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.” — Louis Kahn

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“French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.” — Stephen Gardiner

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“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

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“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

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“Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.” — James Wolcott

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“I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.” — Caroline Wozniacki

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“Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.” — Malcolm Mclaren

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“I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.” — Anne Hathaway

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“Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“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

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“Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.” — Milton Glaser

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“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-Exupéry

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“I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.” — William Landay

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“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

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“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

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“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

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