Quotes About Exploration

To create, one must first question everything.

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

Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials

Continued experiment with dog today.

Imitate. Don't be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

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.

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

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

I wouldn't call it a retail store. It's a place where culture and commerce intersect. It's more like the Silk Road-a sense of exploration mixed with the exchange of things and ideas.

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.

The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value

Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.

Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design?

There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.

We shouldn't be afraid to fail- if we are not failing we are not pushing.

If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.

Since an early age, I've been intrigued by the idea of design evolution.