Quotes About Design

I see. Tell me, monsieur, do you like a challenge? To solve a unique problem?" "Yes, indeed, I love to come up with a solution for any architectural problem," said Lucien, "and the more challenging, the better." He

He loved seeing his buildings get built. That was the most wonderful thing about being an architect—to see your drawings become real, three-dimensional objects that you could walk around and touch. All architects were impatient to see their buildings completed.

Lucien had complete creative freedom. It wasn't just a canard that an architect needed a good client to produce great art.

An architect should never rationalize a change in purely aesthetic terms, you know that. He should give the client a pragmatic reason for doing it." Lucien

As he turned up the avenue Marceau, he smiled as he always did whenever he thought of a new design.

Good triumphed this afternoon, didn't it?" "That, my friend, was a miracle." "And a clever bit of design to hide you up there," said Manet as he gazed up at the painting. "Even

Irish bank, and of one or two other equally laudable enterprises. If I were to plead anything in mitigation of the preposterous fancy that a bad design will sometimes claim to be a good and an expressly religious design, it would be the curious coincidence that it has been brought to its climax in these pages, in the days of the public examination

Biddy entered on our special agreement, by imparting some information from her little catalogue of Prices, under the head of moist sugar, and lending me, to copy at home, a large old English D which she had imitated from the heading of some newspaper, and which I supposed, until she told me what it was, to be a design for a buckle. Of

one or two other equally laudable enterprises. If I were to plead anything in mitigation of the preposterous fancy that a bad design will sometimes claim to be a good and an expressly religious design, it would be the curious coincidence that it has been brought to its climax

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

We like to think we're pretty special, and, OK, in some respects maybe we are. And we like to think that we design for ourselves. And we do, we really do. But in the important ways we are really very much like a lot of other people. And if you are going to design for yourself, then you have to make sure you design deeply for yourself, because otherwise you are just designing for your eccentricities and that can never be satisfying to anyone else.

John Maeda, a designer at the MIT Media Lab, puts the matter, well, simply: "Complexity implies the feeling of being lost; simplicity implies the feeling of being found." When people feel "found," they can join the conversation.

God has not designed you for failure. He created you for success—not success from the world's perspective, but success His way—which glorifies and honors Him and also brings many blessings.

El mismo hecho de que sea capaz de seguir aprendiendo y desarrollándose le dice que nunca estará completamente capacitado en algo. Cada uno de nosotros tendrá siempre mucho espacio para crecer, y eso es parte del diseño de Dios para nosotros.

I know intelligent design doesn't exist because whoever gave sewer roaches wings wasn't very bright.

Fill paper as you please with triangles and squares...

I'd rather be stitchin' than in the kitchen!

A true scrapbook addict is one who stages photographs to match paper she likes.

The worst of a modern stylish mansion is, that it has no place for ghosts.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. It is human, it is divine, carrion. If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life...