Quotes About Design

A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it.

At least, when the great Temple of Jupiter had burned twenty years before, Sulla had had the good taste to restore it to its original design and condition. They don't make tyrants like Sulla anymore.

Design matters a lot when it is leveraged with a deep understanding of computation and the unique set of possibilities it brings.

While great art makes you wonder, great design makes things clear.

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees-to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.

The best art makes your head spin with questions. Perhaps this is the fundamental distinction between pure art and pure design. While great art makes you wonder, great design makes things clear. Sometimes

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

Islamic patterns speak of infinity and the omnipresent center.

Many familiar objects from cassettes to credit cards and Georgian front doors are Phi (1.618...) rectangles.

The dodecagon is also made from six squares and six equilateral triangles fitted around a hexagon

I am an architect of days that have not happened yet.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.

The brain appears to be designed to (1) solve problems (2) related to surviving (3) in an unstable outdoor environment, and (4) to do so in nearly constant motion. I call this the brain's performance envelope.

All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.

Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

She was wearing a beautiful dress with straps designed to be eaten off her shoulders.

The Jacob's Ladder had brought Perceval and her people all this way, through the claws of the cold and cunning Enemy, even though she had been designed by the treacherous Builders to fail and kill them.

Plans. I thought about plans. Plants and plants.

In the souls of the craftsmen who carved this mine, utility was no excuse for a thing to be anything but beautiful.

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.

All librarians, deep down, loathe their buildings. Something is always wrong—the counter is too high, the shelves too narrow, the delivery entrance too far from the offices. The hallway echoes. The light from windows bleaches books. In short, libraries are constructed by architects, not librarians.