Quotes About Design

If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

I'm going to make everything around me beautiful—that will be my life.

Love is Sine Qua Non. In other words, Love is a virtue which is absolutely necessary in all areas of human lives. Besides that, Love is designed by God for you to embrace it, imbibe it and then live it out wholeheartedly. -Emeasoba George

Style is the mind's architecture.

Beauty must be more than an accident.

Were the universe, for example, like a huge impervious reservoir of some simple gas, where nothing rested but nothing changed, where amid all the hurry and bustle of colliding atoms no new thing was ever born, nor any old thing ever perished, we might find in it admirable illustrations of natural law, but no hints, so far as I can see, of purpose or design. Nor is the case really mended if, instead of thus artificially simplifying inanimate nature, we consider it in all its concrete complexity.

Wingback chairs had been originally designed to protect their occupants either from drafts or the heat of a fire.

Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We've never quite made peace with that in the theater---set designer Robin Wagner

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

His successors Benedict XII and Clement VI built in stages the great papal palace at Avignon on a rock overlooking the Rhône, a huge and inharmonious mass of roofs and towers without coherent design.

The wall is an architectural striptease.

conformations, or fit. Thus the rationale for structure-based design: to optimize the shapes of drug molecules. "Connecting the dots," Aldrich liked to call it in a heroic oversimplification that made some of the scientists at the tables wince. In effect, the goal is the very opposite of screening: building the molecules one wants rather than fishing for approximations in nature. The advantages of such drugs presumably

The greatest gift creation has given to all of you is that life is fundamentally meaningless. That means it has no built-in meaning. What that also means is, you were designed to give it the meaning you prefer to give it. And the meaning you give it will utterly determine how you experience it.

I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television.

I really love muscle cars. I don't think people might realize that about me. I really want to go to an auto auction and blow my life savings on a Camaro. They have such design around them, such panache.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

What people don't realize is the human body and the brain are so well designed to do - by millions of years of evolution - what we do.

It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.

I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.

I get up in the morning, look around, arrange and rearrange things, and imagine how I might like them to look. Why doesn't everybody?

My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body.

With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.