Quotes About Design

One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work.

Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.

Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

My work is not about 'form follows function, ' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

Happiness is being hopeful in life and not being scared of death. True happiness in not something you can design.

Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.

There is a grand design hidden behind the obstacles , they are inevitable in everybodys life, they are not without purpose.

Some bemoan the brutalism of socialist architecture, but was the blandness of capitalist architecture any better?

But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?'" Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?

it is by God's deliberate design and decree that human wisdom will never attain knowledge of the most basic truth about reality (God) and that it will never attain salvation on its own.

If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients seem to have had reason to decide that bringing their creations to full completion likewise required a correspondence bewteen the measure of individual elements and the appearance of the work as a whole.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings

Firmitas, utilitas, venustas.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does.

We were put on this earth to make things.

It's the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.