Quotes About Design

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

John Hennessy and David Patterson: they are titled Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface and Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (both published by Morgan Kaufmann).

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Architecture completes nature.

I need to produce great ideas, and I believe that if I were commissioned to design a new universe, I would be mad enough to undertake it.

Anyone who doesn't design, accepts to be designed.

The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided variation on the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.)

Any time you design a character for a Disney picture, especially a fairy tale, it's going to become the definitive design for that character, so you don't want to hack something out. You need to put in the kind of care it warrants if it's going to live in history.

Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution. And it was designed to eat the Constitution. To progress past the Constitution.

The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.

Architecture is frozen music.

God is the designer of the family.

You are very precious, each of you, regardless of your circumstances. You occupy a high and sacred place in the eternal plan of God, our Father in Heaven. You are His daughters, precious to Him, loved by Him, and very important to Him. His grand design cannot succeed without you.

I recall when we opened in New York how the designer locks were impossible to slide shut, often leading to a difficult encounter no matter which side of the door you were on.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Good architecture lets nature in.

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Nerd truth. Comic Sans absolutely messes up everything it touches.

I'm silently judging your font choice.

Comic Sans — ruining PowerPoint presentations since 1994.

Arial — Helvetica's weird, ugly cousin.

Nature had been busy designing him, as she had been busy with all normal men, for the purpose of loving. She had spent ten thousand centuries — ay, a hundred thousand and a million centuries — upon the task, and he was the best she could do.