Design Quotes

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

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

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

Space is the breath of art.

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

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Luck is the residue of design.

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

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

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.