Design Quotes - Page 11

• The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

  John Gruber

  Creative, Quality, Levels

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• The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.

  Verner Panton

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Work

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• Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death.

  Don Ed Hardy

  Tattoo, Issues, People

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• It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

  George Nakashima

  Fighting, Woodworking, Requirements

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• The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.

  Verner Panton

  Work, People, Imagination

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• Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.

  Marcel Wanders

  Luxury, Opulence, Priceless

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• When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.

  Gustav Stickley

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Gustav Stickley (1916). “The Craftsman: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine in the Interest of Better Art, Better Work, and a Better and More Reasonable Way of Living”

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• The people in business must understand what they can achieve with designers. Designers have to understand that they really must deliver to business not just beautification, or another form of it, but substantial change.

  Hartmut Esslinger

  Change, Business, People

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• I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Change, Beauty, Beautiful

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• The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative.

  Lester Beall

  Creativity, Creative, Roles

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• Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is
  and the richness with which this is experienced.

  John Pawson

  Experience, Architecture, Minimalism

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• I make solutions that nobody wants to problems that don't exist.

  Alvin Lustig

  Want, Problem, Typefaces

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• Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

  Bruce Mau

  Time, Children, Work

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• Be the designer of your own destiny.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Life, Motivational, Future

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• My favorite project is always the next one.

  Michael Graves

  Work, Next, Architecture

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• White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

  Jan Tschichold

  White, Space, Experience

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• Realism is something we practice when we aren't feeling very well. When we don't feel up to the extra effort.

  Robert Edmond Jones

  Art, Practice, Effort

  Robert Edmond Jones, Delbert Unruh (1992). “Towards a new theatre: the lectures of Robert Edmond Jones”, Amadeus Press

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• The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.

  Alvin Lustig

  Life, Relationship, Nature

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• Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

  Herbert Bayer

  Photography, Reality, Speech

  Herbert Bayer, Beaumont Newhall (1977). “Herbert Bayer: Photographic Works an Exhibition”

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• Good design is good business.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Death, Business, Good Business

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• If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

  Red Adair

  Jobs, Thinking, Waiting

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• The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

  Harry Bertoia

  Death, Goes On, Urges

  "1000 Chairs". Book by Carlotte & Peter Fiell (p. 66), 2005.

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• An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

  Edwin Land

  Inspiring, Courage, Failure

  "A Genius and His Magic Camera". Life Magazine, October 27, 1972.

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• You have to be interested in culture to design for it.

  Lorraine Wild

  Culture, Graphic Design, Great Design

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• Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

  Victor Papanek

  Meaningful, Order, Effort

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