Quotes About Process

Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

When I paint I do a different thing than when I design. But both involve aesthetics, both involve thought, both involve planning.

Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.

The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.

The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.

With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.

I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand it and I don't think anyone else does either.

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.