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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

"The artist in me cries out for design."

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

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-Walt Disney

-Robert Frost

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

-Erma Bombeck

-Samuel Johnson

-Anna Quindlen

-Ralph Lauren

-Thomas J. Watson

-Thomas J. Watson

-Harry Bertoia

-Henri Matisse

-Herbert Simon

-Arthur Erickson

-Christy Turlington

-Ron Johnson

-Miguel de Cervantes

-Branch Rickey

-Pierre Bonnard

-Stephen Gardiner

-Giorgio Armani

-Charles Eames

-Robert Collier

-Issey Miyake

-Manolo Blahnik

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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

"The artist in me cries out for design."

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

"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."

"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."

"Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next."

"Good design is good business."

"Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people."

"The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living."

"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."

"Sacred spaces can be created in any environment."

"Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input."

"Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist."

"Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

"Luck is the residue of design."

"Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces 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."

"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."

"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."

"Design is not for philosophy it's for life."

"About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs."

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