Quotes About Design

Chinese were not simply great craftsmen and ingenious designers, they were also a deeply moral people. Ethics was their true strength, and theirs was an ethics that crucially eschewed metaphysical or theological speculation and adhered to education and conversation.

The Devil himself had probably re-designed Hell in the light of the information he had gained from observing airport layouts.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Many things difficult to design but it is easy to perfom

Virtually no major scientist today claims that the fine tuning was purely a result of chance factors at work in a single universe.

Stock market operation has been designed in such a way that largely small investors and traders lose money eventually and listed companies and big brokerage firms make a lot of profits only

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

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For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

It is found by experience, that those instruments are the most perfect, which are each of them contrived for its specific use.

The necessity of perpetuating the species, forms the combining principle between males and females; a principle independent of choice or design, and alike incident to animals and to plants, which are all naturally impelled to propagate their respective kinds.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

Nature does nothing in vain.

Aristotle says that 'nature makes instruments to fit the function, not the function to fit the instrument'.

My life is full of love; I designed it that way. I try to make my own experience about love and I look for kindness in others. That's the thing I value the most: it will get you through everything.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

The primary factor is proportions.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.