Design Quotes

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

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

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.

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

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

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

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.