Designer Quotes - Page 12

• I'm an unbelievable designer. I don't know how I know and just do these things. I just start sketching and then I just know the colors and I always know the forecast. I know green and purple are going to be hot. I was born to be a designer. I worked hard to be a tennis player, I don't work hard to be a designer.

  Serena Williams

  Hard Work, Player, Color

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• The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.

  Delphine Arnault

  Fashion, Art, Wife

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• Everybody you work with sees what you're doing from a different point of view, a very specific point of view. So, if someone is lighting, they're seeing it from that point of view. A production designer is seeing it from the placement of furniture that tells you about the character. Everything that goes into the room should tell you about the person who lives in that room.

  Fred Schepisi

  Character, Views, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to explain the designer, who must be, if anything, an even more statistically improbable and elegant thing.

  Richard Dawkins

  Stills, Creatures, Improbable

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• Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

  Fred Brooks

  Thinking, Design, Different

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• Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who just happens to be a fashion designer, that people can take me as they find me. It's not the designer's job to care about what people think. Whatever else I've done, I've never tried to be something that I'm not.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Jobs, Thinking

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• Having money hasn't changed me. If anything it's made my life worse. People come up to you who knew you before you were famous and who didn't come up to you before. I'm a clever designer. I can do what the client wants. But I'm prepared to forget about money if it affects my creativity because, remember, I started off with nothing. And I can do that again.

  Alexander McQueen

  Clever, Creativity, People

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• Thus it is that our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father, so far as this mortal experience is concerned, consists not simply of faith and gladness that He exists, but is also a faith and trust that, if we are humble, He will tutor us, aiding our acquisition of needed attributes and experiences while we are in mortality. We trust not only the Designer but also His design of life itself, including our portion thereof!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Father, Humble, Design

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• Whenever the C++ language designers had two competing ideas as to how they should solve some problem, they said, "OK, we'll do them both". So the language is too baroque for my taste.

  Donald Knuth

  Ideas, Two, Taste

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• I don't think there is a particular responsibility on designers that is not on other professions... I think there's a responsibility for all of us to engage on all levels.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Responsibility, Thinking, Levels

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• If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intelligent Designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case, get it out of the science classroom and send it back to church, where it belongs.

  Richard Dawkins

  Intelligent, Feet, Discipline

  "One side can be wrong" by Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne, www.theguardian.com. September 01, 2005.

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• I think it took me a little while to be true to myself as a designer, and in some ways I'm still trying to do that. I have to choose things that come naturally to me. Whenever I challenge something too much or try too hard, it never quite works out.

  Stella McCartney

  Thinking, Work Out, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I haven't been a gay activist. I haven't protested for gay rights or none of that, but one thing I can say is that a lot of the designers I wear are gay and I like their clothes.

  ASAP Rocky

  Gay, Rights, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's really important to make things your own in your voice. I started when I was 23, and in the beginning of my career, there was this expectation of a young designer being edgier, cooler, more downtown. But I was never that person.

  Jason Wu

  Thinking, Careers, Voice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The worst thing is to be a designer and create work that isn't honest. You have to be honest. Otherwise, you'll always be a reaction to what other people do and you'll always be one step behind.

  Jason Wu

  People, Steps, Honest

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

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• As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work.

  Jason Wu

  Want, Term, Transformed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The idea of transformation is super-important to me. You can see it in the way I approach things. I have never been a clean-faced, freshly scrubbed hair person. I'm the New York designer who doesn't do that. I think about the hair and makeup almost as much as I think about the clothes because it all has to work.

  Jason Wu

  New York, Makeup, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I guess I accidentally became a part of history. Honestly, when you're young and you're a designer, you have a goal, but that is not the kind of goal that you even think it's possible to achieve.

  Jason Wu

  Thinking, Goal, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.

  Boy George

  Art, College, People

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• The hats are tough. I've got a weird head, so believe me, there were a lot of hats. Penny [Rose], our costume designer, who I knew from other jobs said, "Badge, that looks terrible on you. Hold on. No, we can't do that one."

  James Badge Dale

  Jobs, Believe, Rose

  Source: collider.com

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• The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Fashion, Crazy, Thinking

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• Very few designers today design - it's very important to be able to do your own sketch on paper and then explain [your vision] to the fabric cutters. Instead, lots of designers drape - it's the new way.

  Valentino Garavani

  Design, Vision, Important

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• She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.

  Kanye West

  Kim, Muse

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• I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Young, Surround

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• I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman.

  Kerry Washington

  Fashion, Thinking, Everyday

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