Design Quotes - Page 10

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.

When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

Design is everything. Everything!

An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.

I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to human design and effort, human conventions and convenience, and the human pursuit of that elusive, indefinable harmony that we call beauty. It has a life of its own, an intricate, willful, secret life, as any gardener knows. It is only the humans in it who think of it as a garden. But a garden is a relationship, which is one of the countless reasons why it is never finished.

The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong... There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

There is a rumour that I can't draw and never could. This is probably because I work so much with models. Models are one of the most beautiful design tools, but I still do the finest drawings you can imagine.

When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

A bad website is like a grumpy salesperson.