Quotes and Sayings about Design

Quotes and Sayings about Design

It's harder to build a good chair than to build a skyscraper.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

John Malkovich

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams

Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works.

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Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

Driss in Intouchables

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Albert Einstein in The World As I See It

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Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta

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Art Truth Politicians

Art is a way of survival.

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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.

Pablo Picasso

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Children & Childhood Art

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

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A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

Andy Warhol

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Art Photography Pictures

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

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Art Daily Routine

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Oscar Wilde

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Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

Aretha Franklin

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I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what’s on the wall. I look at this painting and think about how everyone has some secret inside, something sleeping like that yellow bird.

Cath Crowley in Graffiti Moon

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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

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I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Octavio Paz

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As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

David Bailey

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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoi

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I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.

Shahid Khan

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Architecture Stones & Rocks

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Frank Gehry

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Steve Martin

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Music Architecture

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Imagination Architecture Air

God is in the details.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It's better to be good than to be original.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

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My style statement is to be myself! Because if you try to imitate someone else, you will end up feeling uncomfortable.

Shraddha Kapoor

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Character Style

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Coco Chanel

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The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

John Malkovich

I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium.

John Malkovich

The fact that all of this was happening in virtual space made no difference. Being virtually killed by virtual laser in virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.

Douglas Adams

Virtual Reality

The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

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Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

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