Design Quotes

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

Douglas Wilson

My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

Venus Williams

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

Genevieve Gorder

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

Nicole Richie

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

John Dyer

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

Andrew Wyeth

Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.

Jil Sander

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

David Hockney

I'd love to design bridal dresses.

Lauren Conrad

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Mary Astell

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

James Dyson

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

Valentino Garavani

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.

Lance Armstrong

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

David Bromstad

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

Donald Norman

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

Jonathan Ive

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly.

Michael Arad

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.

Ken Jennings

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Erma Bombeck