Quotes About Design

Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.

Anytime you can promote young artists and designers is a cool thing.

At the OECD, we stand ready to continue to help our member and partner countries to design, promote, and implement Better Policies for Better Lives.

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

I like to think that the Internet and file sharing, if utilized properly and embraced, and I emphasize properly, is a high-powered marketing design.

Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.

It's really important that policy be properly designed. It's not enough just to.. .get angry over a subject.

I love to watch 'Property Brothers.'

The primary factor is proportions.

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

I'm just really good at dressing my body's proportions.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

All leading brands started with and still possess the DNA of innovation and creativity, but it is often limited to one or two areas such as design or engineering. For a company to prosper, it must inject this innovative spirit into every aspect of the business.

We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body.

Couture is also a term used for top-of-the-range, to-order clothing - but not to the level of intricacy and expense as haute couture. And without the 'haute', the word 'couture' itself isn't protected.

The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.

I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.

Mighty is geometry joined with art resistless.

the transcendent gladness of grapes and wine so beneficial to body, soul and psyche's interior design.

If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.