Quotes About Design

It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.

The way we want to look at it is we would like to do end-to-end design in India. We've invested for many years, and so at some point, to do end-to-end product in India is very much a possibility.

When it becomes economically possible, building will become montage.

If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old.

Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.

Don't feel you have to buy something to sit in or at. Buy something you are emotionally attached to and build your design around that. One Matisse cutout poster could provide you with your whole color scheme!

I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.

Folding in is better than folding out. Folding out is cool, and it looks potentially better... but I don't think that's the way to use a folding phone.

The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.

I'm really proud of my partnership with Pottery Barn Kids.

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

I went back to college for construction and design.

I can't copy nature.

I think of what I do as copying nature's design process.

I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

I may sound like a corny bastard, but I love fashion.

Sometimes I just do costumes, sometimes I just do fashion, and sometimes I blend the two.

The costumes had to serve the choreography.

Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.