Quotes about Design

“I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.”

“All of the designs on Minted are crowd-sourced from a global community of independent designers. We hold monthly design and art challenges that anyone in the world is welcome to enter.”

“I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.”

“Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.”

“I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.”

“Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.”

“Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.”

“I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.”

“And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.”

“Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.”

“Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.”

“The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.”

“We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.”

“When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.”

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

“To me, design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort - so you can get on with the things that matter.”

“Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.”

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

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

“Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.”

“I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'”