Quotes About Originality

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

Do not seek to change what has come before. Seek to create that which has not

To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.

I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

Another word for creativity is courage.

Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.

All the old fellows stole our best ideas.

Good designers copy; great designers steal.

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

Creativity is to think more efficiently.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

Design really can be anything.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

Design has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldy.

Style is to forget all styles.

Whatever the trend might be, I'm thinking of the Woman for whom I'm designing it.

Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.

Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

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.