Design Quotes
I design from instinct. It's the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed. Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut.
Donna Karan
American fashion designer
We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.
Jim Henson
American puppeteer
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.'
Kanye West
American rapper
I really liked the design of Batman. I liked the concept. There's a lot more you can do with Batman than most other superheroes.
Chip Kidd
American graphic designer
I'd love to design a school.
Nolan Bushnell
American businessman
At about age 25 I had a bit of a quarter-life crisis and expected to be at a certain place by then, which was unrealistic to some extent. I used to have a lot of passion for interior design but I somehow lost it along the way, and so fashion was what I thought to be a new beginning, but in the end it just solidified the love I have for design.
Jeremiah Brent
American interior designer and television personality
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.
Peter York
Consultant
Design is everything. Everything!
Paul Rand
American art director
I don't care what word you use: my job is to design clothing that is not out there for us.
Ashley Nell Tipton
Fashion designer
The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.
Elon Musk
Chief Executive Officer of Twitter
There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.
Neill Blomkamp
South African-Canadian filmmaker
Programming is the art of algorithm design and the craft of debugging errant code.
Ellen Ullman
American computer programmer
I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.
Mary Steenburgen
American actress
It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.
Cass Sunstein
American legal scholar
I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
Edgar Wright
Filmmaker
One of my most memorable moments serving the community was after I built the Live Civil Playground in Haiti, and I visited an orphanage and gave away shoes to all the kids. I also sat with them and helped them design their shoes. The smiles on their faces were priceless.
Karen Civil
American strategist
I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
Kate Spade
American fashion designer
I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.
Jasmine Guinness
Irish designe
There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10,000 dresses and clients who buy $60 dresses. It's not so much about the money. Design is a mentality.
Jason Wu
Taiwanese-Canadian artist
The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.
Gianfranco Ferre
Italian fashion designer
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