Top design Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of design quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Martin Parr
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
Collection: Design
Image of Carroll Shelby
I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.
- Carroll Shelby
Collection: Design
Image of Venus Williams
My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
- Venus Williams
Collection: Design
Image of Marc Jacobs
I'm not really well educated - other than an art survey course at the High School of Art and Design in New York when I was, like, 15. I don't know the history of art, but I got over intimidation from the art world when I realized that I was allowed to feel whatever I want and like whatever I want.
- Marc Jacobs
Collection: Design
Image of William Butler Yeats
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
- William Butler Yeats
Collection: Design
Image of I. M. Pei
To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
- I. M. Pei
Collection: Design
Image of Alice Waters
If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.
- Alice Waters
Collection: Design
Image of Robert Hughes
Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.
- Robert Hughes
Collection: Design
Image of Jensen Huang
We're going to design future cars the way people design airplanes. Except we have to use so much technology and ingenuity to reduce its cost and its form factor. We can't afford to have a jet plane. That would be great if could.
- Jensen Huang
Collection: Design
Image of Fergie
Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.
- Fergie
Collection: Design
Image of Jack Nicklaus
If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.
- Jack Nicklaus
Collection: Design
Image of Vera Wang
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
Collection: Design
Image of Jonathan Ive
Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.
- Jonathan Ive
Collection: Design
Image of Stephen Gardiner
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
- Stephen Gardiner
Collection: Design
Image of Marcel Wanders
I like to find areas where design has not yet gone.
- Marcel Wanders
Collection: Design
Image of Jane Mayer
Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration.
- Jane Mayer
Collection: Design
Image of Ross Lovegrove
Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition.
- Ross Lovegrove
Collection: Design
Image of Isambard K. Brunel
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
- Isambard K. Brunel
Collection: Design
Image of Zaha Hadid
I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
- Zaha Hadid
Collection: Design
Image of Neri Oxman
In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.
- Neri Oxman
Collection: Design
Image of Gauri Khan
My design preference tends towards warmth, comfort, and minimalism.
- Gauri Khan
Collection: Design
Image of Carolina Herrera
I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world.
- Carolina Herrera
Collection: Design
Image of Seth Shostak
Most of the things at the zoo don't look like us. We're one design that works. Our chimp pals sort of look like us, so that's a different take on the same basic design. But fish don't look like us, and giraffes don't. They look a little like us, but not too much. And insects certainly don't look like us, and they work just fine.
- Seth Shostak
Collection: Design
Image of James Dyson
I don't design down to a price.
- James Dyson
Collection: Design
Image of Ryan Bethencourt
The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups.
- Ryan Bethencourt
Collection: Design
Image of Philip Treacy
I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.
- Philip Treacy
Collection: Design
Image of Clement Mok
Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
- Clement Mok
Collection: Design
Image of Eva Zeisel
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.
- Eva Zeisel
Collection: Design
Image of Mary Barra
When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team.
- Mary Barra
Collection: Design
Image of Vera Wang
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. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
- Vera Wang
Collection: Design
Image of Mohamed ElBaradei
Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at war with each other, under the pretext of religion, ideology, ethnicity and other reasons. And no civilization has ever willingly given up its most powerful weapons.
- Mohamed ElBaradei
Collection: Design
Image of Michael Dell
The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.
- Michael Dell
Collection: Design
Image of David Chipperfield
I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.
- David Chipperfield
Collection: Design
Image of Steve Madden
So much of design is context.
- Steve Madden
Collection: Design
Image of Tom Ford
Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.
- Tom Ford
Collection: Design
Image of Stella McCartney
My job is to make desirable, luxurious, beautiful clothing and accessories women want to buy. My first decision is always based on, 'Can I do this in a more sustainable way without sacrificing design?' If I can, then there is no reason not to.
- Stella McCartney
Collection: Design
Image of Pawan Kalyan
I don't believe in planning for things. I just want them to fall in place, unfold as they like. I never design things. I want films to choose me; I don't choose films.
- Pawan Kalyan
Collection: Design
Image of Elon Musk
Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.
- Elon Musk
Collection: Design
Image of Lisa Vanderpump
I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.
- Lisa Vanderpump
Collection: Design
Image of Don Bluth
I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.
- Don Bluth
Collection: Design
Image of Rudy Giuliani
There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.
- Rudy Giuliani
Collection: Design
Image of Donald Wills Douglas
When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!
- Donald Wills Douglas
Collection: Design
Image of Yves Saint Laurent
I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me.
- Yves Saint Laurent
Collection: Design
Image of Marc Jacobs
Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.
- Marc Jacobs
Collection: Design
Image of Camille Paglia
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
Collection: Design
Image of James Dyson
I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
- James Dyson
Collection: Design
Image of Kelly Wearstler
There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.
- Kelly Wearstler
Collection: Design
Image of Vera Wang
My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.
- Vera Wang
Collection: Design
Image of Steve Wozniak
If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
- Steve Wozniak
Collection: Design
Image of Stefan Sagmeister
I run a design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally closed. And as you can imagine, it is a lovely and very energetic time.
- Stefan Sagmeister
Collection: Design