You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.
I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.
What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.
The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.