“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
Albert Einstein
SimplicityBalance
Design Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DESIGN
Design Quotes
Read 200 of the best design quotes from Steve Jobs, Dieter Rams, Charles Eames, Paul Rand, Milton Glaser, Jony Ive and more on simplicity, function, creativity and great design.
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty, but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
BeautyProblem Solving
“People ignore design that ignores people.”
Frank Chimero
Human CentredUX Design
“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.”
Jeffrey Zeldman
ContentWeb Design
“Design is the intermediary between information and understanding.”
Richard Grefé
CommunicationInformation Design
“Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.”
Ivan Chermayeff
Problem SolvingHuman Centred
“Design thinking is a human-centred approach to innovation.”
Tim Brown
Design ThinkingInnovation
“There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them.”
Victor Papanek
ResponsibilityIndustrial Design
“Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order.”
Victor Papanek
OrderDefinition
“Fail faster to succeed sooner.”
David Kelley
IterationPrototyping
“Simple can be harder than complex: you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”
Steve Jobs
SimplicityThinking
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas.”
Steve Jobs
FocusProduct Design
“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”
Yves Saint Laurent
StyleFashion
“The difference between style and fashion is quality.”
Giorgio Armani
QualityFashion
“Personality begins where comparison ends.”
Karl Lagerfeld
IndividualityFashion
“Elegance is refusal.”
Diana Vreeland
EleganceShort Quotes
“When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.”
Iris Apfel
StyleIndividuality
“Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love.”
Nate Berkus
Interior DesignHome
“Be faithful to your own taste, because nothing you really like is ever out of style.”
Billy Baldwin
Interior DesignTaste
“I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.”
Elsie de Wolfe
Interior DesignWit
“Design is not making beauty; beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.”
Louis Kahn
“There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?”Zaha Hadid
CreativityArchitecture
“Architecture is a backdrop for life.”
B. V. Doshi
Indian ArchitectureLife
“Form follows climate.”
Charles Correa
Indian ArchitectureContext
“If one says "Red" and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds.”
Josef Albers
ColourPerception