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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.
“If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.”
Alan Cooper
UX DesignSoftware
“As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.”
Jef Raskin
UX DesignInterface
“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.”
Robert L. Peters
CultureFuture
“Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.”
Erik Adigard
Design EverywhereCraft
“Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.”
Brian Reed
QualityDesign Everywhere
“Form follows emotion.”
Hartmut Esslinger
EmotionIndustrial Design
“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Japanese AestheticsLight
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
Coco Chanel
SimplicityElegance
“Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.”
Christian Dior
FashionBeauty
“Buy less, choose well, make it last.”
Vivienne Westwood
SustainabilityFashion
“Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.”
Renzo Piano
ArchitectureResponsibility
“A house is a machine for living in.”
Le Corbusier
ArchitectureFunction
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context: a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”
Eero Saarinen
ContextSystems Thinking
“To create, one must first question everything.”
Eileen Gray
CreativityQuestions
“I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.”
Frank Gehry
ClientsFunny
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
Philip Johnson
SpaceWit
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”Aristotle
CraftsmanshipPassion
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.”Plato
SimplicityHarmony
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Confucius
BeautyPerspective
“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.”Lao Tzu
Negative SpaceFunction
“Measure twice, cut once.”
English Proverb
PlanningCraftsmanship
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
BeautyPerception
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
Michelangelo
SimplicityBeauty
“Design is intelligence made visible.”
Alina Wheeler
IntelligenceShort Quotes