Design Quotes

Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.

The very best design, I feel, is that which resonates so deeply that people can't help but discover something within themselves when they see it.

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

It was Einstein's dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein's day hadn't made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.

When I am true to my inspiration, even fight for my design, the project always turns out well.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.

The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

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

Good design should be honest.

Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. It's safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them.

Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it.

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too.