Quotes About Design

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.

For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

I really want to start pushing my merchandise. I want to design something clothing-wise one day. I think that would be really sick.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

I like fashion shows. I like the quick flash of culture and energy.

Our silhouettes are quite classic, and the fit is very flattering. I just try to create something beautiful that complements the wearer.

I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.

I know what I always enjoyed about 'Flip or Flop' was the design part, so it just naturally made sense to get more involved in doing makeovers.

When Nate and I got married, instead of flowers we had these quartz and rock crystals everywhere.

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

I'm so fond of abstract design in the style of Vanderbilt and David Hicks and that whole 1970s era. They took the 1930s and gave it a bit of technicolour.

There is such a strange microculture to footballers' fashion and style and the design that goes around it.

I'd want to start being a creative director of a specific line, like Adidas, for example. If they called me up to collaborate on something, I would do it.

Form follows beauty.

It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.

All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

There is art in everything - industry, education, play, all are forms of art.

Buildings are forms of performances.

Fashion was never my forte.