Design Quotes

Good design is invisible; you only notice it when it is bad. These quotes come from designers, architects, and creative thinkers who understand that making something simple is usually the hardest work of all.

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“The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'”

— Alexander Wang

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“We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.”

— Ron Lewis

“I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.”

— Liz Phair

“The artist in me cries out for design.”

— Robert Frost

“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.”

— Richard Dawkins

“There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.”

— Oscar Niemeyer

“I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.”

— Tom Stoppard

“I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.”

— Jim Henson

“God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.”

— Mary Astell

“A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”

— Steve Jobs

“I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.”

— Brad Pitt

“But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?”

— Mary Astell

“Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.”

— Tom Peters

“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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