Design Quotes

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

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

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
Niklaus Wirth

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik

Accessible design is good design.
Steve Ballmer

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
Pierre Bonnard

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes

Design is an unknown.
Geoffrey Beene

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
Ivan Chermayeff

Design is everything. Everything!
Paul Rand

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
Issey Miyake

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn

Design is people.
Jane Jacobs

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Paul Rand

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
Thomas J. Watson

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

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.
Tyra Banks

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Kenzo Tange

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