Quotes About Design

One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.

One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

I help design my own tennis clothes.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities.

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or the Federal Reserve.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

Design is a vital component to the enrichment of our everyday lives. Japan has a very rich history and culture of design, and I feel it is a very important dialogue to open and keep evolving.

I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.