Quotes About Design

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

You see as mayors and local officials our jobs are designed so we have more in common with our constituents than Washington politicians can ever have.

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

I would love to one day have my own line of clothes.

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant.

I love doing kitchen renovations where we're opening up the kitchen and creating open-concept main floors. I think that's one renovation that really changes the way people live in their homes.

I really like the Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony collection - all of those kind of laser-cut leather dresses.

I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.

I became a set designer for opera.

Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly for it expresses a need

What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.  Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

We should remember that all the arts are fine arts and all the arts decorative arts.

You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underwear. One or the other. Not both.

How much risk should civil engineers design for? If the answer is zero risk, then nothing would ever be built.

You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.

She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season.

It was a generously-planned face. Nature seemed to have started out with the idea of making two faces and then to have decided to use all the material for one.

Change comes hard, because we find nothing more traditional than traditions. We put so much effort into designing and building these hierarchies that we are tremendously resistant to rethinking them in spite of the pressure to do so.

Your system is perfectly designed to yield the result you are getting." This