Quotes about Design

“The primary factor is proportions.”

“I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.”

“I'm deeply and passionately involved in the design process. I'm a brash American, and if my name is going to be on something, I'm going to have my say.”

“I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.”

“There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them.”

“I help design my own tennis clothes.”

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

“Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.”

“It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.”

“Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.”

“To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.”

“I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.”

“I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.”

“Growing up, Guess always had these amazing billboards and cool affordable clothing. I wore it then, and I still wear it now! It's come full-circle. When I design the clothes, I have a very good team around me, showing me different pieces and cuts.”

“My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.”

“I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.”

“Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.”

“To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.”

“I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.”

“I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.”

“Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.”