Quotes About Design

Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.

My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration.

Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

Beauty is the result of clarity and system and not of optical illusion.

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.

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.

The playful search for beauty.

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas.

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.

Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.