Design Quotes

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.

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

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

The artist in me cries out for design.

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

The primary factor is proportions.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

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.

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

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

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

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

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.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.