No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and atti…

- George Nelson

You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

- George Nelson

Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.

- George Nelson

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

- George Nelson

Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate.

- George Nelson

I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were

- George Nelson

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its …

- George Nelson

Design is a response to social change.

- George Nelson

What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What is this symbo…

- George Nelson