Design Quotes

"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

"The details are not the details. They make the design."

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."

"Any product that needs a manual to work is broken."

"Space is the breath of art."

"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."

"Luck is the residue of design."

"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."

"Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."

"Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people."

"A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes."

"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."

"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones."

"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."

"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."

"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space."

"A camel is a horse designed by committee."

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

"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."

"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."

"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."

"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

"Design is people."

"Good design is good business."

"We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us."

"Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it."

"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."

"Accessible design is good design."