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Quotes About Perspective

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.
~ Isaac Mizrahi
To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.
~ Jamie Zawinski
There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.
~ William Bernbach
Counter the effects of culture (steering your design ideas) by going out and looking for new experiences.
~ Bob Gill
The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.
~ John Hench
The more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate.
~ Michael Vanderbyl
Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
~ Seth Godin
It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.
~ Phil Mickelson
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context.
~ Eliel Saarinen
There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.
~ Garry Winogrand
You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.
~ Matt Smith
Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.
~ Fred Brooks
You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.
~ Unknown
The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.
~ Jonathan Ive
I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.
~ Cynthia Rowley
I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Don't design your back yard from the outside looking in. Design from your window looking out.
~ Janet Macunovich
Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn't design Coors Field-I just play there.
~ Todd Helton
The illusion of design is so successful that to this day most Americans (including, significantly, many influential and rich Americans) stubbornly refuse to believe it is an illusion.
~ Richard Dawkins
Design can change how you look at yourself.
~ Ty Pennington
In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.
~ Nancy Lancaster
The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.
~ Rajneesh
What's perfect now, might not be so 10 years hence. Whatever we're basing our design ideas on is not what we remember in the past. It's something that kind of folds in on itself.
~ Unknown