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Quotes About Inspiration

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
Do not seek to change what has come before. Seek to create that which has not
~ Unknown
To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.
~ Unknown
Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.
~ Unknown
What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
~ Rian Hughes
It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.
~ Robert Greenberg
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
~ Paco Rabanne
Do things that matter, things that will make those better, and things that will make you better.
~ Jessica Walsh
We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
~ Christopher Alexander
To touch somebody's heart with design.
~ Stefan Sagmeister
I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.
~ Norman Foster
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
~ Ettore Sottsass
The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.
~ Bruce Mau
MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE.
~ Shepard Fairey
Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.
~ Chip Kidd
I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
~ Ralph Lauren
My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.
~ Elsie de Wolfe