Design Quotes - Page 14

• You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself.

  Ed Paschke

  Interest, Concepts, Exploring

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• Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Art, Feelings

  'What is Art?' (1898) ch. 19 (translated by Maude)

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• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

  Alexander Pope

  Sublime, Genius, Literature

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• When I'm designing I try to think about what I like to see on other people.

  Dwyane Wade

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "The GQ+A: Dwyane Wade On Getting Dressed, Buying A Watch, and Sitting in Tight Pants". Interview with Kristen Dold, www.gq.com. December 12, 2013.

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• It is so important to be really true to yourself in design, and I am.

  Thom Browne

  Important, True To Yourself, Really True

  "Thom Browne Addresses Pratt Seniors on the Future of Fashion". Interview with Rebecca Moss, www.elle.com. April 26, 2013.

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• Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.

  Dorothy Draper

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

  Bernard Arnault

  Creative, Management, Inspired

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• Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Death, Design Process, Aesthetic Beauty

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• 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

  Philosophy, Crafts, Propaganda

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• Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

  Kevin McCloud

  Beauty, Beautiful, Philosophy

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• To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give reality to one's dreams.

  Roger Vivier

  Dream, Fashion, Reality

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• We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Inspirational, Fashion, Icons

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.21, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• The reason for designing new media is simple - to subtly and quietly change the world.

  Hillman Curtis

  Simple, Media, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Country, Freedom, Patriotic

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• Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

  Johan Huizinga

  Inspirational, Motivational, Past

  Johan Huizinga (2014). “Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance”, p.58, Princeton University Press

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• Nature expresses a design of love and truth.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Truth And Love, Truth Of Life

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Charity in Truth”, p.100, Ignatius Press

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• As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone,
  And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known,
  So I turn the leaves of Fancy, till in shadowy design
  I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Life, Albums, Fancy

  James Whitcomb Riley (1993). “The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley”, p.28, Indiana University Press

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• Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

  John Ruskin

  Patience, Writing, Long

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 443), 1895.

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• Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Events, Politics

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• Cryptography shifts the balance of power from those with a monopoly on violence to those who comprehend mathematics and security design.

  Jacob Appelbaum

  Balance, Politics, Cryptography

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• There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

  Edmund Burke

  Disappointment, Judgement, Ignorant

  "The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes", Vol. IX, Boston: Little, Brown, 1839.

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• It's a truly disgusting idea that the creator of the universe - capable of inventing the laws of physics and designing the evolutionary process - that this protégé of supernatural intellect couldn't think of a better way to forgive our sins than to have himself tortured to death.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Law, Ideas

  Interview with Chip Rowe, www.playboy.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Religion, Designer

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.315

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• A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.

  Fred Hoyle

  Science, If There Is A God, Numbers

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