Designer Quotes - Page 11

• Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, Talent, Moments

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• A car designer is really a sculptor.

  Chris Bangle

  Car, Sculptors

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• Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Dark, Light, People

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• The costume designer, her name is Anne Hardinge. She's done "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz." She's really comedic costume designer, which was right up my alley. She was a joy to work with. She was like fabulous Geena Davis. She was just floating with her red lip and kind of fabulous.

  Jerusha Hess

  Names, Joy, Hot

  "Interview: Jerusha Hess and J.J. Feild of 'Austenland'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. August 22, 2013.

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• Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I take great pleasure in working with them. That's what's most fun about directing.

  Marc Webb

  Fun, People, Creative

  Source: screenrant.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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• If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Technology, Views

  "Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Trying, Desert, Kind

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.18, Da Capo Press

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• The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it.

  Hyman Rickover

  Mistake, Paper, Necks

  "AEC Authorizing Legislation: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy", (p. 1702), 1970.

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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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• 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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• Designers have to keep the body in mind all the time. Think of the girl's undergarments: the bra is always key.

  Candice Huffine

  Girl, Thinking, Keys

  "Plus-Size Model Candice Huffine Has Launched Her Own Collection and It's Fabulous". Interview with Lauren Chan, www.glamour.com. May 6, 2015.

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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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• 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'm part of the first generation who grew up with manga [comics] and anime [animation], you know, after 'Godzilla.' I was absorbed with Ultraman on TV and in manga. The profession of game designer was created really recently. If it didn't exist, I'd probably be making anime.

  Satoshi Tajiri

  Anime, Games, Generations

  "The Ultimate Game Freak". Time Magazine Interview (Volume 154, No. 20), content.time.com. November 22, 1999.

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• I'm gonna be the first hip-hop designer and because of that, I'm gonna be bigger than Walmart.

  Kanye West

  Hip Hop, Firsts, Hips

  "Kanye gets revenge on Nike with Adidas deal". Page Six Interview, pagesix.com. November 28, 2013.

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• I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since 1978. Janusz Kaminsky, my cinematographer, has made every movie with me since Schindler's List. Michael Kahn has cut every movie I've directed since 1976 when we made Close Encounters together. Rick Carter has done more than 15 of my directed films as a production designer.

  Steven Spielberg

  Cutting, Careers, People

  "War Horse - Steven Spielberg interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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