Quotes About Creativity

When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It's not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

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.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.

You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty

Design is a tool to help the tribe.

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

A failed experiment can be more important than a trivial design

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

I rarely agree with what clients ask me to do.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.