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Quotes About Design

Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.
~ Lois Mailou Jones
Great design is serious, not solemn
~ Paula Scher
As designers we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.
~ Dieter Rams
I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.
~ Paula Scher
When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it.
~ Jared Spool
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
~ Christopher Alexander
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
~ James Dyson
If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.
~ Tom Watson
Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.
~ Edward Tufte
So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.
~ Genevieve Gorder
Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.
~ Thomas Watson, Jr.
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.
~ Sam Raimi
By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.
~ Kelly Wearstler
I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.
~ William Shakespeare
What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes.
~ Amy Alcott
I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.
~ Steve Madden
Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.
~ Fred Brooks
Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.
~ Jonathan Ive
The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.
~ Martin Filler
The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'
~ Alexander Wang
When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.
~ John Denham
You have to have great design to be competitive in today's markets.
~ John Doerr