Quotes About Design

If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through the ear for conception perhaps and a well-fitting hatch somewhere modest for escape nine months later.)

And, of course, philosophy attracted exactly the wrong kind of girls for Bob – earnest intellectual ones, for example, who wanted to discuss Foucault and Adorno and other people Bob had tried very hard not to hear of. If Bob could have designed a girl he would have started by getting rid of her vocal cords.

She was wearing an aggressive three-piece outfit that was probably very expensive but had the kind of pattern you would get if you cut up the flags of several obscure countries and then gave them to a blind pigeon to stick back together again.

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.

Jumpsuits for men are always so difficult when you get to that one area.

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

Never, in these United States, has the brain of man conceived, or the hand of man fashioned, so perfect a thing as a clipper ship.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.

Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.

Man's best friend is a really good plan!

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.

Just imagine dressing the two handsomest men in the world, and then getting this!

Makes of men date, like makes of car.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.