Quotes About Design

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

It's not the ideas; it's design, implementation and hard work that make the difference.

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.

Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.

Attractive things work better When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn't it? Or at least feels like it does.

A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.