Design Quotes

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles Eames

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Colour does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
Pierre Bonnard

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles Eames

Art is man added to Nature.

You cant do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously
Wim Crouwal

Graphic designers find themselves in a role of visual dishwashers for the information Architects chefs.
Gunnar Swanson

People ignore design that ignores people.
Frank Chimero

No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.

Design is a good idea.
Emigre

Its art if cant be explained. Its fashion if no one asks for an explanation. Its design if it doesnt need explanation
Wouter Stokkel

Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Marty Neumier

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
David Hockney

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
Max Ernst

Without good design it is easy to miss the point.
Bjarni Wark

Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.
Brian Reed

Practice safe design: Use a concept
Petrula Vrontikis

Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasnt theirs.
Frank Chimero

Only recently have we begun to clarify these muddy waters by revealing the Demosthenean corpus for what it is: oratory designed to sway public opinion and thereby to formulate public policy. That elusive creature, Truth, is everywhere subordinate to Rhetoric; Demosthenes' pronouncements are no more the true history of the period than are the public statements of politicians in any age.







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