Welcome to the world of design, where creativity knows no bounds and inspiration flows endlessly. Design is not just about aesthetics; it’s a powerful form of expression that shapes our surroundings and influences our perceptions. From the elegance of minimalist design to the intricacies of graphic artistry, the realm of design encompasses a diverse spectrum of ideas and innovations. This page is dedicated to celebrating the essence of design through a collection of insightful and thought-provoking quotes. Whether you’re a professional designer seeking motivation or someone simply looking to add a touch of creativity to your daily life, these quotes will inspire you to explore the limitless possibilities of design. Feel free to copy them, place them on an image, or enhance them with stylish fonts – the choice is yours. Now, let’s dive into the world of design inspiration!
The proper study of mankind is the science of design. Herbert A. Simon
The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It’s good to have an influence. Olivier Theyskens
Good design is good business. Ian Schrager
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
Fashion fades, only style remains the same. Coco Chanel
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture – and forget that merchandise must be sold. James Randolph Adams
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. Charles Eames
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. Daniel Libeskind
I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side. Tommy Hilfiger
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. Gianni Versace
So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that’s a great reward. Genevieve Gorder
Space is the breath of art. Frank Lloyd Wright
The space within becomes the reality of the building. Frank Lloyd Wright
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
I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is. B. F. Skinner
I’ve learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality. Claudia Schiffer
It’s a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I’m aware of designers wagging their tails in my face. Jonathan Ive
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
The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows. Frank Zappa
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. Peter York
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
Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate. Paul Rand
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. Samuel Johnson
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 an unknown. Geoffrey Beene
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical. Giorgio Armani
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth – it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations. Henry Petroski
Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy. Erma Bombeck
Everyday people are not very good designers. Donald Norman
In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good. Michael Graves
Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill. Rem Koolhaas
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
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. Philip Johnson
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. Christopher Alexander
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short, with design. Herbert A. Simon
Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. Charles Eames
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. Herbert A. Simon
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. Philip Johnson
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
The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair. Leo Fender
Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. Terence
Gucci is not a fashion or a design house, it was always a trademark. Maurizio Gucci
Design is people. Jane Jacobs
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. Norman Foster
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
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color – not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. Henri Matisse
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. Henry David Thoreau
A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. Edith Head
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. Anna Quindlen
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Jim Rohn
In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone. Donald Norman
I believe in empty spaces; they’re the most wonderful thing. Anselm Kiefer
Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you’re trained in design, it won’t look very good and it won’t communicate very well. John Maeda
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. Louis Kahn
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus
The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. Harry Bertoia
Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department. Tom Peters
Luck is the residue of design. Branch Rickey
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. Miguel de Cervantes
Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but ‘design for good’ is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild. Cameron Sinclair
What is design? It’s where you stand with a foot in two worlds – the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes – and you try to bring the two together. Mitch Kapor
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. Tadao Ando
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. George Santayana
I don’t design clothes, I design dreams. Ralph Lauren
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. Stephen Gardiner
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. Donna Karan
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. Manolo Blahnik
It’s all in how you arrange the thing… the careful balance of the design is the motion. Andrew Wyeth
We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us. Anne-Marie Willis
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. Coco Chanel
I don’t think there is anything wrong with white space. I don’t think it’s a problem to have a blank wall. Annie Leibovitz
Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health. Robert Evans
In the end, I hope there’s a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer. Steve Wozniak
Design is not for philosophy it’s for life. Issey Miyake
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You’re in one minute, out the next. Tyra Banks
British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class. Margaret Heffernan
Good design is good business. Thomas J. Watson
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. Robert Collier
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. Elon Musk
Accessible design is good design. Steve Ballmer
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures. Tom Peters
I’m not into fashion, but I like design. I wear the same shoes every day. Tyler, The Creator
Design is everything. Everything! Paul Rand
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all… good design must primarily serve people. Thomas J. Watson
I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn’t have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn’t have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then. John Maeda
This is what I like about being a designer: You can’t really get it until you see it. Isaac Mizrahi
The artist in me cries out for design. Robert Frost
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. Milton Glaser
The details are not the details. They make the design. Charles Eames
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. William Butler Yeats
If I have a style, I am not aware of it. Michael Graves
The primary factor is proportions. Arne Jacobsen
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
Good design doesn’t date. Harry Seidler
I think it’s really important to design things with a kind of personality. Marc Newson
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design – it reinforces it. Pierre Bonnard
We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives. Tara Stiles
There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors. Tony Hoare
Sacred spaces can be created in any environment. Christy Turlington
