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A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?

Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

Apple's Jony Ive describes his "fanatical" approach to design in new interview

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out that this may be done by filling the chasm with earth, but only a Bridge Engineer is competent to determine whether it is cheaper to do this or to bridge it, and to design the bridge which will safely and most cheaply serve.

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity - finding an individual formula to apply to one's buildings.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that, the one true gift that an architect has is his or her imagination. We take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

Art brings out the grand lines of nature.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

As a designer, everything is always about aesthetics mixed in with functionality and having that visual appeal. But you learn fast as a new parent with an infant that if it’s not deeply practical as well, then forget about it. Style wise, I wanted to design items that would work well in any nursery - regardless of gender.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.

As consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense where has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed.

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

As designers we are influenced both consciously and subconsciously by everything we see around ourselves. Still, we always must try to avoid anything that has been defined as the latest and greatest "trend" in design.

... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism .

As far as preference between fall and spring collections, I have none that I prefer to design. With fall you have a lot more items, but of course I am from the Dominican Republic, so I love the warm weather.

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.