Design Quotes - Page 62

A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.

Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.

Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.

To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

When in doubt, use Caslon.

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself.

I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.

My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.

The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield.

Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.

Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!