Quotes About Design

My career has been spent developing airplanes.

So much of the time spent on 'Zootopia' was inventing it. What does it look like? How does it work?

It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.

I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit.

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.

I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse.

Though men pride themselves on their great actions often they are not the result of any great design but of chance.

Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It's a matter of obedience, not emotion.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

Women's fashion is more interesting than men's.

The woman of tomorrow will be efficacious, seductive and without contest superior to man. It is for this woman that I conceive my designs.

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.