Good design means as little design as possible. — Dieter Rams
The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE — Tibor Kalman
Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. — Dieter Rams
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations. — George Nelson
The best design is the simplest one that works. — Albert Einstein
Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully. — Roger Martin
Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment. — Naoto Fukasawa
Short Great Design Quotes
Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness. — Chuck Green
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended. — Raymond Loewy
To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering. — Thomas Manss
Good art inspires; Good design motivates. — Otl Aicher
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand
Design means being good, not just looking good. — Clement Mok
The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior. — Naoto Fukasawa
Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything. — Doug Cranmer
Yes, design can make you happy. — Stefan Sagmeister
Top 10 Great Design Quotes
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. — Louis Kahn
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. — Otto von Bismarck
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano
You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography. — Herb Lubalin
If you can design one thing, you can design everything. — Massimo Vignelli
Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are. — Gianni Versace
The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress. — Hubert de Givenchy
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. — Yves Saint Laurent
Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint. — Lois Mailou Jones
To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard. — Allen Ginsberg
Great Design Image Quotes
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people. — Victor Papanek
Silence is a source of great strength.
Good Design Quotes
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist — Francis of Assisi
Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination. — Massimo Vignelli
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy. — Philippe Starck
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity. — Dieter Rams
You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people. — Dieter Rams
It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good. — Paula Scher
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. — David Carson
Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style. — Massimo Vignelli
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. — David Brainerd
God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it. — Hamza Yusuf
Beautiful Design Quotes
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn
From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader. — Adrian Frutiger
There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence. — Massimo Vignelli
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there. — Yves Saint Laurent
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. — Coco Chanel
We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept. — Philippe Starck
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent. — Saul Bass
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life. — Elsie De Wolfe
I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance — Iris van Herpen
There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material. — Salvatore Ferragamo
Little minds think and talk about people.
Average minds think and talk about things and actions.
Great minds think and talk about ideas. — Benjamin Franklin
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. — Condoleezza Rice
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore. — Peter Brook
Let's go to Brunch. What a great idea! Why would you want to sleep in on a Sunday when you can go pay $18 for eggs? Now, you're thinking. — Bill Burr
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. — Brian Tracy
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing. — Margaret J. Wheatley
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. — Benjamin Disraeli
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover. — Jimmy Breslin
Great Book Quotes
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. — Antonio Gaudi
The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens. — Galileo Galilei
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. — B. F. Skinner
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise. — Shimon Peres
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. — Antonio Gaudi
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. — Malala Yousafzai
To a great mind, nothing is little.
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. — Louis Pasteur
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. — Moliere
That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ. — Queen Victoria
To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate — William Wilberforce
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world. — Alicia Keys
I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in. — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something. — Tadao Ando
I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone. — Elizabeth Banks
My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard. — Geddy Lee
One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. — Karl Lagerfeld
Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. — Gianni Versace
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. — Paul Tillich
To create great work, here's how you must spend your time:
1% Inspiration
9% Perspiration
90% Justification — George Lois
If you want to communicate something, youd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody. — Stefan Sagmeister
When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great. — Vera Wang
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. — Edwin Lutyens
3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion). — Lester Beall
Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose. — Lauren Hutton
Things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow. — James Victore
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. — Coco Chanel
This is not a great phone. It's an interesting design. — Rob Enderle
Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder. — Christopher Hitchens
A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with. — Jesse James Garrett
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. — Philip Johnson
You have to be interested in culture to design for it. — Lorraine Wild
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. — Tim Blixseth
As designers we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived. — Dieter Rams
The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius. — Richard Neutra
All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers. If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants. — William Cobbett
Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you. — Ralph Lauren
I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise. — Steve Wozniak
Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak. — Rachel Zoe
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