Design Quotes
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
I'm designing what I want. If it's a man's coat with a pair of skinny-leg jeans, I'll do that. It's whatever my mood is. But it's about style, and it's about an understated taste that's cool.
The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.
We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.
It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.
Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.
An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.
Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.
My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
The definite link between all the women who wear my designs is that they are strong, independent, and with their own opinions.
When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.
Creativity is in everyone; it just manifests itself differently with each person. My CPA, for example, is one of the most creative people I know.
I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!'
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.
A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.
If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.
Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.
The companies that get innovation right, again and again, are the ones that feel what their customers feel. That is true user-centered innovation
As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.
If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny
Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in terms of memetic selection.
And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.
still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.
Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own.
The best designs of all are organic, evolving from the subtleties of the ground they inhabit.
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.
I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.
Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!
The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield.
Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.
Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.
There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself.
Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.
Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.
