Top 481 Design Quotes

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

Norman Foster

Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.

Filippo Brunelleschi

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

Betsey Johnson

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

D. H. Lawrence

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Richard Dawkins

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

Martin Filler

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.

Henry Petroski

The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Steve Jobs

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

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

Kenzo Tange

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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