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Famous quotes by Designers

DesignersExplore insights from designers whose work shapes the way we live, learn, and connect. These quotes capture creativity grounded in problem-solving, from sketchbook sparks to user-centered solutions. Voices span graphic, product, digital, fashion, and architectural design, offering reflections on curiosity, constraint, collaboration, and the craft of iteration. Whether you're seeking motivation, perspective, or a fresh lens on form and function, these words invite a thoughtful pause and a renewed appreciation for how design turns ideas into experiences.
"The details are not the details. They make the design"
Charles Eames, Designer
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"Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines"
Enzo Ferrari, Designer
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"I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self"
Mainbocher, Designer
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"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door"
Coco Chanel, Designer
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"The difference between style and fashion is quality"
Giorgio Armani, Designer
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"Fashion fades, only style remains the same"
Coco Chanel, Designer
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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, Designer
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"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make"
William Morris, Designer
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"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll"
Shigeru Miyamoto, Designer
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"Dress shabbily, and they remember the dress; dress impeccably, and they remember the woman"
Coco Chanel, Designer
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"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone"
Coco Chanel, Designer
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"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions"
Coco Chanel, Designer
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"Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung"
William Morris, Designer
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"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are"
Colleen Atwood, Designer
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"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity"
Coco Chanel, Designer
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"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty"
Coco Chanel, Designer
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"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"
Charles Eames, Designer
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"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life"
Charles Eames, Designer
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"Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest"
Christian Dior, Designer
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"The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail"
Christian Dior, Designer
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"I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body"
Calvin Klein, Designer
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"When in doubt wear red"
Bill Blass, Designer
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"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it"
Yves Saint Laurent, Designer
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"There are people who have money and people who are rich"
Coco Chanel, Designer
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"Fashion is made to become unfashionable"
Coco Chanel, Designer
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"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make"
Charles Eames, Designer
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"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic"
Charles Eames, Designer
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"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life"
William Morris, Designer
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"Give me love and work - these two only"
William Morris, Designer
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"I'm neither Democrat nor Republican"
Calvin Klein, Designer
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