Quotes About Design

The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.

Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.

I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

Nor were the Arabs content with praising the lighthouse: they even looked at it. "El Manarah," as they called it, gave the name to, and became the model for, the minaret, and one can still find minarets in Egypt that exactly reproduce the design of Sostratus—the bottom story square, second octagonal, third round.

Who is this guy?" "One of the founders of Wegetit," murmured Jeffrey. "Got his start in something called Structured Dialogic Design.

I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.

as a writer, or any kind of artist, was not designed to, you know, to make you special or to even isolate you….What your role was, it seemed to me, was to bear witness. To what life is—does—and to speak for people who cannot speak. That you are simply a kind of conduit.

a designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes

Because man was created in the image of a creator. Man was created that he might create. It is not a waste of mans time to be creative. It is not a waste to pursue artistic or scientific pursuits in creativity, because this is what man was made to be able to do. He was made in he image of a creator, and given the capacity to create.

I soon discovered that all civility is but the mask of design.

If you understand the system you can design appropriate action.

It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.

A true scrapbook addict is one who stages photographs to match paper she likes.

So much fabric, so little time! Or, sew much fabric, sew little time!

Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

I like making a piece of string into something I can wear.

Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary.

The most stylish and successful rooms are not those who slavishly follow a theme, but those who evolve gradually.

Studying ice crystals as a graduate student, he eventually found the basic design (equilateral, equiangled hexagon) so icily repeated, so unerringly conforming, that he couldn't help but shudder: Beneath the splendor--the filigreed blossoms, the microscopic stars--was a ghastly inevitability; crystals could not escape their embedded blueprints any more than humans could. Everything hewed to a rigidity of pattern, the certainty of death.