Quotes About Design

That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.

Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

When we started work on the iPhone, the motivation there was we all pretty much couldn't stand our phones, and we wanted a better phone.

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.

I moved to New York and went to art school at Parsons School of Design. Became a photographer. Became a creative consultant.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

I enjoy fashion photography and textiles, that whole aspect of it. As more of an art form, I like Proenza Schouler. Those guys are really cool because they seem to have an interesting approach to it all.

My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.

I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.

We need to incorporate fashion into every element and institution, whether it be through designer-lecture series, photography exhibitions, or collaborative efforts between artists and designers.

I love creating art, whether it's with photos, my own body, or clothes.

The computer has played a role in destroying creativity with the Photoshop. Everybody thinks they're a designer.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly, it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it, and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me.

A lot of people spend all this time painting their house, picking out rugs, and then they put fluorescent lighting in there. It totally ruins the mood.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

Children's picture books are a unique record of social evolution: in gender roles and racial politics, as is much discussed, but also in fashion and interior design.

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pictures from magazines and put them in notebooks. When I'd start a collection, I'd sit with my old notebooks and look through them for inspiration.

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.