445 Quotes Regarding Design


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

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

The artist in me cries out for design.
Robert Frost

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-Exupery

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

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel Johnson

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

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

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.
Tyra Banks

Good design is good business.
Thomas J. Watson

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

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Harry Bertoia

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
Henri Matisse

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

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.
Herodotus

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

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.
Christy Turlington

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.
Ron Johnson

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
Terence