“Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.”
Steve Jobs
DetailsPatience
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.
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”Henry David Thoreau
SimplicityLife
“Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
BeautyEconomy
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.”
John Ruskin
QualityEffort
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
Alan Kay
InnovationFuture
“A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.”
Shigeru Miyamoto
Game DesignQuality
“A game is a series of interesting choices.”
Sid Meier
Game DesignChoices
“Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room.”
Jeff Bezos
BrandingReputation
“Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.”
Aza Raskin
ConstraintsProblem Solving
“If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.”
David Ogilvy
AdvertisingBusiness
“Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.”
Bill Bernbach
CreativityAdvertising
“Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again.”Walt Disney
ExcellenceExperience Design
“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.”
Tim Berners-Lee
AccessibilityWeb Design
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.”
Shunryu Suzuki
Beginner's MindCreativity
“Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.”
Chuck Close
Work EthicCreativity
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”
Pablo Picasso
InspirationHard Work
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
Vincent van Gogh
DetailsProcess
“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.”
Charles Kettering
Problem SolvingDesign Thinking
“Small things make perfection, but perfection is no small thing.”
Henry Royce
DetailsPerfection
“When someone says, "I can do that too," it means that he can redo it, otherwise he would have done it before.”
Bruno Munari
OriginalityWit
“Necessity is the mother of invention.”Plato
InventionShort Quotes
“Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable.”
Raymond Loewy
InnovationIndustrial Design
“Designing is a playful search for beauty.”
Eva Zeisel
PlayBeauty
“Design demands observation.”
Achille Castiglioni
ObservationShort Quotes
“Good design is long-lasting.”
Dieter Rams
Timeless DesignSustainability