“Good design is honest.”
Dieter Rams
Design PrinciplesHonesty
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.
“We're surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects.”
Jony Ive
QualityCraftsmanship
“Take your pleasure seriously.”
Charles Eames
JoyShort Quotes
“Total design is nothing more or less than a process of relating everything to everything.”
George Nelson
Systems ThinkingDesign Process
“Everything is sculpture. Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.”
Isamu Noguchi
SculptureForm
“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”
Arne Jacobsen
“Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.”
Alvar Aalto
NatureForm
“God is in the details.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
DetailsShort Quotes
“Designing is not a profession but an attitude.”
László Moholy-Nagy
BauhausMindset
“In visual perception a colour is almost never seen as it really is.”
Josef Albers
ColourPerception
“White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.”
Jan Tschichold
White SpaceTypography
“If you remember the shape of a spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape.”
Adrian Frutiger
TypographyInvisible Design
“Having guts always works out for me.”
Stefan Sagmeister
CourageGraphic Design
“Busy is a decision.”
Debbie Millman
PrioritiesShort Quotes
“Don't mistake legibility for communication.”
David Carson
CommunicationGraphic Design
“Design dissolves in behaviour.”
Naoto Fukasawa
Product DesignBehaviour
“Design is not a technique of making things. It is the ability to grasp and sense the essence of things.”
Kenya Hara
EssenceJapanese Design
“Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself.”
Yohji Yamamoto
LearningFashion
“In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.”
Elsa Schiaparelli
FashionBoldness
“Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.”
Alexander McQueen
FashionFreedom
“Style is primarily a matter of instinct.”
Bill Blass
StyleInstinct
“The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.”
Albert Hadley
Interior DesignPeople
“Architecture is the very mirror of life.”
I. M. Pei
“A room is not a room without natural light.”
Louis Kahn
LightArchitecture
“I am attracted to free-flowing, sensual curves.”
Oscar Niemeyer
CurvesArchitecture