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Quotes About Inspiration

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
~ Neil Gaiman
Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
~ Vera Wang
Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.
~ John Maeda
Think more design less
~ Ellen Lupton
You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.
~ Dorothy Draper
It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.
~ Bernard Arnault
Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.
~ William McDonough
I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.
~ Albert Hadley
You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream.
~ Giuseppe Zanotti
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
~ Pablo Picasso
I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.
~ Neil Gershenfeld
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.
~ Bruce Mau
The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.
~ Alexander Girard
I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
~ Ray Bradbury
All the old fellows stole our best ideas.
~ Frederic Goudy
When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.
~ Paula Scher
Create something people want to share.
~ John Jantsch
Good designers copy; great designers steal.
~ Pablo Picasso
My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
~ William Morris
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.
~ Michael Graves
Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.
~ B. J. Fogg
Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.
~ William Bernbach
I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.
~ Ettore Sottsass