Design Quotes

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

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

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

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 mov…

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the im…

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision,…