Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

design

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

The primary factor is proportions.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Good design is good business.

The artist in me cries out for design.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

I don't design down to a price.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Luck is the residue of design.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.