Quotes About Creativity

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.

I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.

Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.

The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.

Creativity is to think more efficiently.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

When you have something truthful to say, it will design itself.

The reason for designing new media is simple - to subtly and quietly change the world.

There is more fine abstract design in Navajo rugs than in all these modern paintings.

The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

You can wear them with anything. It's the person and the way that they wear it that makes it different. I have been designing white shirts forever, but I don't get tired of it.

A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it and I put pictures in it.

Verbalizing design is another act of design.

Everything starts with design.

Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

Design is the best way to get from A to B when you don't yet know what B is.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.