Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. – Steve Jobs
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. – Walt Disney
The artist in me cries out for design. – Robert Frost
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. – Samuel Johnson
The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. – Harry Bertoia
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color – not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. – Henri Matisse
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. – Herbert Simon
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. – Herodotus
Sacred spaces can be created in any environment. – Christy Turlington
Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. – Terence
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. – Miguel de Cervantes
Luck is the residue of design. – Branch Rickey
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it. – Pierre Bonnard
Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design. – Stephen Gardiner
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical. – Giorgio Armani
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. – Charles Eames
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. – Robert Collier
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. – Manolo Blahnik
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need. – Charles Eames
