Quotes About Design

It's time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it.

We spent a lot of time trend forecasting and collaborating on ways to design a fresh line of fashion-forward, affordable luxury.

By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play.

I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.

I was asked to design the tuxedo for Mr. Peanut. They're rebranding him. That was probably the most interesting request. I didn't spend a long time considering it.

I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

All the design companies together make 10% of what Ikea makes.