Quotes About Inspiration

Both of them are close to how I'd envisioned them. In Ico's case the design and in SotC's the visual look were very close to what I'd imagined.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

The design should make the product speak to you.

It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.

Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.

I always wanted to design for films.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

I never knew that I would be actually designing clothes or as into fashion as I am now.

Since an early age, I've been intrigued by the idea of design evolution.