Design Quotes - Page 17

• To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

  Minoru Mori

  Leadership, Strong, Ambition

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• Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Beauty, Art, Add

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• It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Art, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.158

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• Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness.

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Beauty, Struggle, Delight

  Marie-Luise Gothein, Walter P Wright (1979). “History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes”, p.18, Gardenvisit.com

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• Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying work of art. Every individual, with thought, patience and a large portion of help from nature, has it in them to create their own private paradise: truly a thing of beauty and a joy for ever.

  Geoff Hamilton

  Beauty, Art, Creativity

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• In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

  Monty Don

  Beauty, Color, Combination

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• Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.

  Walter Scott

  Art, Children, Garden

  "Periodical Criticism".

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• Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

  William Wordsworth

  Art, Garden, May

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.291, e-artnow

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• Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

  Kathryn Gustafson

  Garden, Land, Soul

  "A memorial to incompetence" by Deyan Sudjic, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2005.

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• The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.

  Dan Kiley

  Garden, Important

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• When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.

  Jacques Wirtz

  Garden, Quiet, Aim

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• In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Wisdom, Art, Knowledge

  Gertrude Jekyll (1913). “Wall and Water Gardens: With Chapters on the Rock-garden and the Heath-garden”

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• You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

  Fernando Flores

  Risk, Identity, Able

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• Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bad Ass, Ideas, Space

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• We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

  Edward de Bono

  Judging, Judgement, Way

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• Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from living things around us and bring our values and actions in line with ecological necessity. But we must first realize that ecological and social and economic issues are all deeply intertwined. There can be no solution to one without a solution to the others.

  Jean-Michel Cousteau

  Future, Self, Issues

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• I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Poverty, Poor

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• By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

  Yukio Mishima

  Art, Truth, Flower

  Yukio Mishima (1966). “Death in Midsummer, and Other Stories”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.

  Samuel Johnson

  Reality, Differences, Hypocrisy

  Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.286, Yale University Press

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• If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

  John Ruskin

  Vices, Virtue, Building

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.102

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• An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Motivational, Compassion, Ordinary

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 22, 2013

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• Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Education, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

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• Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

  Robert Collier

  Death, New Beginnings, Simple

  Robert Collier (1948). “The Secret of the Ages”

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• If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fear, Doubt, Woven

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• A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

  William Bernbach

  People, Campaigns, Failing

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