Quotes About Design

Form ever follows function.

Architecture is frozen music.

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus.

Our goal isn't to make money. Our goal absolutely at Apple is not to make money. This may sound a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal, and what gets us excited, is to try to make great products.

Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of lengths, the animals walk smoothly. You could say that this range of numbers is their genetic code.

Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing is designed well and it sounds good.

I think the details and the quality are so important that it has to have an emotional tug. Even if it's the simplest shoe, it has to have something that says, 'Oh, I have to have you.'

As a young designer in tune with culture, I'm interested in the lifeline of trends.

When I was little, I just was very tuned in to the functionality and aesthetics of things around me.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

Tesla is changing the paradigm. We're going to turn the world on its ear and create high demand through design.

For the Emmys, my friend Rooney Mara designed a dress for me with her brand, Hiraeth. It's so neat to see a sketch turn into a full-on look.

You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop.

I don't understand how I can pay $299 for iPhone and then get in my car and still have to turn knobs.

We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

I've always drawn a lot. I like the idea of turning a 2-D sketch into a 3-D thing very quickly. And clothing is really good for that.