Design Quotes

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Paul Rand

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Leo Burnett

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humours.

George Santayana

The difference between a Designer and Developer when it comes to design skills, is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it.

Scott Hanselman

Art is like masturbation. It is selfish and introverted and done for you and you alone. Design is like sex. There is someone else involved, their needs are just as important as your own, and if everything goes right, both parties are happy in the end.

Colin Wright

Marketing without design is lifeless, and design without marketing is mute.

Von R. Glitschka

If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.

Justin Durban

Design is in everything we make, but its also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

Erik Adigard

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Freeman Thomas

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Clement Mok

Design is the contrast of the core of limitations therefore there are no boundaries. It is simply an interpretation of creativity.

Jenaiha Woods

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Louis Nizer

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

Alain Badiou

Design is intelligence made visible.

Alina Wheeler

A designer who gives her art away, makes no pay, A designer who keeps her art to herself, makes no friends.

Amber Seree Allen

Design is like a mom, nobody notices when shes around, but everybody misses her when shes not.

Santiago Borray

Making good design is easy. Its polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

Stefan G. Bucher

Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.

Mieke Gerritzen

Good ideas turn into good designs fairly quickly. If you catch yourself fiddling too much with colors, borders and treatments to bring a design together, chances are the problem lies somewhere deeper.

Ryan Singer

Design is creativity with strategy.

Rob Curedale

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

Peter Saville

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

Massimo Vignelli

Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking.

Chris Pullman

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