Quotes about Design

“I've always been very into interior design, and I can't stand to have anything in my apartment that I don't aesthetically love.”

“Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.”

“I'd love to design a school.”

“We spent a lot of time trend forecasting and collaborating on ways to design a fresh line of fashion-forward, affordable luxury.”

“Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.”

“I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.”

“I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.”

“Fashion design is an important part of the creative industry that means the most to women.”

“Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.”

“To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.”

“Even before I was discovered in 1966, I used to make my own clothes. I learned how to sew early on, and it's still my passion now. I constantly have ideas in my head about clothes so jumped at the chance to do my own collection and am very hands-on. Everything I design, I wear and I love.”

“I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.”

“If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.”

“The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.”

“I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.”

“If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.”

“To take on the jobs of tomorrow, students must become more than good test takers. They need to become makers who design, sketch, build, and prototype. And their classrooms will need more than a chalkboard and a set of textbooks.”

“Design can change how you look at yourself.”

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

“You have to have talent to design and to dress thousands of women or millions of women around the world. And you know very well, the only thing they want is to look more beautiful.”

“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.”