“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
Rabindranath Tagore
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Design Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DESIGN
Design Quotes
Read 200 of the best design quotes about simplicity, beauty, function and creativity, from William Morris, Leonardo, Emerson, Confucius and more.
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”
Kahlil Gibran
BeautyEternity
“In most things nature has contrived that what is most useful has also the greatest dignity and often the greatest beauty.”
Cicero
FunctionBeauty
“The cobbler should not judge beyond his sandal.”
Pliny the Elder
ExpertiseFeedback
“He knew when to take his hand from a picture.”
Pliny the Elder
Knowing When To StopRestraint
“Art lies in concealing art.”
Ovid
EffortlessSubtlety
“Sublimity is the echo of a great soul.”
Longinus
GreatnessInspiration
“Every discourse ought to be a living creature, having a body of its own and a head and feet; there should be a middle, beginning, and end, adapted to one another and to the whole.”
Plato
StructureUnity
“Beautiful things are those which please when seen.”
Thomas Aquinas
Visual DesignBeauty
“Unity is the form of all beauty.”
Augustine of Hippo
UnityBeauty
“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
Baruch Spinoza
ExcellenceEffort
“All beauty is truth.”
Lord Shaftesbury
TruthBeauty
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination.”
Joseph Addison
NoveltyImagination
“Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature.”
Samuel Johnson
Timeless DesignUniversality
“There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life.”
John Constable
PerspectiveBeauty
“Sweetness and light.”
Matthew Arnold
CultureBeauty
“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”
Walt Whitman
SimplicityExpression
“There is but one art - to omit!”
Robert Louis Stevenson
EditingSimplicity
“Beauty will save the world.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
BeautyHope
“Behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours.”
The Bible (Isaiah 54:11)
ColourBuilding
“Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.”
The Bible (Psalm 50:2)
PerfectionBeauty
“The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 12:10)
UX WritingClarity
“We murder to dissect.”
William Wordsworth
AnalysisNature
“What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth.”
John Keats
ImaginationTruth
“Beauty is the splendour of truth.”
Plato
BeautyTruth