429 private quotes tagged design

“A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.”— Charlie Byrd

“That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.”— Genevieve Gorder

“The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.”— David Rockefeller

“It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“I love design.”— Venus Williams

“I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'”— Kanye West

“So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.”— Sophia Bush

“When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.”— Miuccia Prada

“Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.”— Marc Jacobs

“But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.”— Marc Jacobs

“For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.”— Kim Campbell

“Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960's. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club.”— Jack Nicklaus

“I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.”— Jack Nicklaus

“A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.”— Jack Nicklaus

“A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.”— Jeffrey Kluger

“Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.”— Roberto Cavalli

“I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.”— Len Wein

“Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.”— James Dyson

“I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.”— Brad Pitt

“I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.”— James Dyson

“When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.”— James Dyson

“I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.”— James Dyson

“Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.”— James Dyson

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

“For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.”— James Rouse