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Quotes About Design

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.
~ Maya Lin
I never knew that I would be actually designing clothes or as into fashion as I am now.
~ Tyga
Since an early age, I've been intrigued by the idea of design evolution.
~ Phillip Lim
I like sincerely talking about market analysis and how marketing is ahead of design and design needs to catch up to fulfill the promise of the marketing.
~ Reggie Watts
Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being.
~ Richard Bach
The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design.
~ Richard Dawkins
I'm a minimalist when it comes to design.
~ Richard McGuire
While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution.
~ Noam Chomsky
Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.
~ Penn Jillette
It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and a feverent if incorrect understanding of design and anatomy.
~ Ryan North
Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."
~ Peter Block
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
~ Rachel Lambert Mellon
How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we entrust our care!
~ Rick Yancey
Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.
~ Samuel Johnson
The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.
~ Samuel Johnson
In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.
~ Saul Griffith
The school at which you studied - design school, disruptive school, TRIZ school, user-centered innovation school, etc - determines the specific words you use.
~ Scott D. Anthony
When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.
~ Seth Godin
... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.
~ Samuel Florman
All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel
~ Simon de Pury
I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.
~ Sonia Rykiel
When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section.
~ Unknown