Quotes About Design

There are usually three sections of people who like my work. There are those who like them aesthetically. They see beauty in the images. Second, there are those who like the horror aspect, which is by design, and I like that. Third, there are those who are moved by the historical or political nature of them. They want to talk about them.

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

Good design is probably something that has been thoroughly thought through to a point of resolution.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

I'd love to be an artist. My mum is so talented and she used to design her own greetings cards. I'm crap at drawing though.

I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.

At the start of the process the idea is just a thought - very fragile and exclusive. When the first physical manifestation is created everything changes. It is no longer exclusive, now it involves a lot of people.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

History is littered with examples of objects and inventions with a power beyond their professed purpose. Sometimes it's deliberately and maliciously factored into their design, but at other times, it's a result of thoughtless omissions.

Anybody can make a thousand dollar garment because you find the finest fabric and the finest mills, and you churn that out.

Here he found that European learning, like Oriental bookkeeping, had its useless intricacies designed to keep outsiders where they belonged.

Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

Let's face it: Despite shelves full of books on software architecture, enough UML diagrams to fill an art museum, and design meetings that seem to last longer than the pyramids, building software mostly comes down to writing one method after another.

The fundamentally important issue in the design of constitutions is to enable rather than hinder economic transitions that are not well understood in advance.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

A recurrent theme through many chapters is: Keep it simple. Whether it comes to visuals, stories, or technology, remember that often less is more.

Love is just another idea. And ideas are perfect, but executions of ideas are not.

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.