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Quotes About Innovation

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.
~ Ettore Sottsass
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
~ Edwin Lutyens
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
~ Milton Glaser
A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design
~ Verner Panton
If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.
~ William McDonough
The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.
~ Alec Issigonis
When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.
~ Tibor Kalman
Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.
~ Michael Bierut
Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.
~ Sun Ra
An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.
~ Lee Kun-hee
This is not a great phone. It's an interesting design.
~ Unknown
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
If design isn't profitable, then it's art.
~ Henrik Fisker
I rarely agree with what clients ask me to do.
~ Ross Lovegrove
Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.
~ John Hockenberry
Yes, design can make you happy.
~ Stefan Sagmeister
They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.
~ Unknown
Math is easy; design is hard.
~ Jeffrey Veen
I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.
~ Johanna Drucker
You have to be interested in culture to design for it.
~ Unknown
Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower.
~ Unknown
Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.
~ Arman
There is no one, right way to design or develop anything. To a large degree, it needs to reflect the culture - especially the innovation culture - of a company.
~ Unknown
Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
~ Sister Parish