Quotes on Design

Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing, and making. Form and the material and process - they are beautifully intertwined - completely connected.

Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection.

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.

All I've ever wanted to do is design and make; it's what I love doing.

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.

The new architecture and urban design of segregation could be called Calvinist: they reflect a desire to live in a world of predestination rather than chance, to strip the world of its wide-open possibilities and replace them with freedom of choice in the marketplace.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the sky and you're missing the sunrises and sunsets and you're missing the fact that bees pollinate all these crops and keep us alive and the way that everything seems to work together. Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design.

Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.

Problems come about when we try to direct the flow of the universe rather than allow it to reveal its own design. Inherent in that design is a love for all living things.

Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms _x000D_ -not one that others, or the environment have _x000D_ scripted for you.

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.