Quotes About Design

Architecture is art, nothing else.

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.

If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.

If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

Art, indeed, began with abstraction.

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.