Quotes About Design

Critical design can never be truly popular, and that is the fundamental problem. Objects that are critical of industry's agenda are unlikely to be funded by industry.

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

everything in life had a pattern and that a coincidence was simply the moment when that pattern became briefly visible.

It looked a little like a railway terminus as designed by an overambitious architect … one obviously with ideas above his station.

Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.

Housing providers and building and design professionals have a responsibility under federal nondiscrimination laws to provide housing protections for individuals with disabilities.

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

The way I dig in to push myself through mountain climbs is totally psychological. I'm not designed to do that stuff. It's mind over matter.

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

I think it's always wonderful to dress people in the public eye. It's the icing on the cake and such an endorsement of what we do.

Many of my clients have become close friends, and that informs the clothing I design for them. Julianna Margulies was introduced to me by her publicist many years ago, and we've been good friends ever since.

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.

I have an office at my house, so when I go home I am always pulling inspiration and putting ideas together.

We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric.

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

When I was a student, my first luxury purchase was a drafting table. It may not seem like a major purchase, but for me, it was the most important thing I could think of to spend my money on.

Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.

Your space, when done correctly, is the purest extension of yourself!

The purpose creates the machine.

Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.