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"A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes."
Christian Louboutin
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint"
Exupery
"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."
Walt Disney"Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."
Dieter Rams
"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones."
Herbert A. Simon
"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
Charles Eames
"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."
Paul Rand"It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion."
Andrew Wyeth"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."
Ivan Chermayeff
"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."
George Santayana
"Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works."
Steve Jobs"Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space."
Philip Johnson"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."
Louis Kahn
"With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces."
Greg Lynn"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."
Le Corbusier"Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable."
Donna Karan
"Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one."
David McFadden
"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."
Mike Davidson
"Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school."
Nate Berkus"The Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession posed daunting new challenges for central banks around the world and spurred innovations in the design, implementation, and communication of monetary policy."
Janet Yellen"I weirdly love interior design and real estate and all of that. I really do. I get chills from it."
Kendall Jenner
"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
Miguel de Cervantes"The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line."
Arthur Erickson"In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer."
Steve Wozniak
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