Famous Design Quotes

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

Issey Miyake, Designer

"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"The artist in me cries out for design"

Robert Frost, Poet

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

Terence, Playwright

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

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Accessible design is good design"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

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

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design"

Charles Eames, Designer

"Design is people"

Jane Jacobs, Sociologist

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

Pierre Bonnard, Artist

"Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

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

Tyra Banks, Model

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

Herbert Simon, Scientist

"Good design doesn't date"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"Design is an unknown"

Geoffrey Beene, Designer

"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings"

Robert Collier, Publisher

"Design is everything. Everything!"

Paul Rand, Designer

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

Ron Johnson, Politician

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

Thomas J. Watson, Scientist

"The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair"

Leo Fender, Businessman

"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do"

Niklaus Wirth, Scientist

"A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes"

Edith Head, Designer

"Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one"

David McFadden, Poet

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

Louis Kahn, Architect

"So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"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, Designer

"Good design is good business"

Thomas J. Watson, Scientist

"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate"

Mike Davidson

"Sacred spaces can be created in any environment"

Christy Turlington, Model

"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, Novelist

"I design for the woman who loves being a woman"

Diane von Furstenberg, Designer

"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical"

Giorgio Armani, Designer