Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Designers - Page 16

There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

I believe in spending money to make your home the perfect sanctuary away from work and the stress of everyday life.

I think my differences were, and my differences still are, that I don't really approach fashion in a fashiony way.

Sportswear is great, but not every designer can do tailored.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

I do wonder why modern society has made monogamy the one and only option. In England, it's always, 'Are you with him, or him?' Perish the thought it might be both.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Real fashion is something you don't need - it's something you want.

With a wedding gown, I have to make sure that people fall in love with it and that the details are very specific and special. There has to be a big story behind it and a great deal of integrity when it comes to the design.

I absolutely adore cows. They're the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.

Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

I broke pretty much every rule of classic game design and tried to invent new ones.

I've been lucky enough to meet a lot of fantastic people, from royalty to rock stars. I've also been known to be a bit of a daredevil, so I've tried to explore extreme travel and adventure - scuba-diving in an arctic glacier and camping in the Himalayas.

I know this independence is what people like most about my brand.

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

I watched television a little, but I mostly just drew and read magazines.

The advantages of a virtual production pipeline are that you can reduce the footprint of your production down to the size of the stage.

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum's.

We never pull down the quality of the product, and I think that pays in the long term. People come up to me and say, 'I'm still wearing a Missoni sweater from 30 years ago, and it still looks great.' So quality, specificity and passion.

People online will tell you what they really think - there's no diplomacy. They're honest; it's good to have the feedback immediately.

The client is not always right.

If you splurge, do it on an item that's fun, because you'll feel good whenever you put it on.

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

The fundamental dogma of Modernism - that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow - has created a throwaway society of disposable objects. That is sick.

My family is my number one priority.

I went to a seminar early in my career on the craft of storytelling by Robert McKee. It was really life altering. There are basic principles on how to craft an engaging story and he covers them well. He's got a book out, 'Story,' that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in improve their storytelling.

People are so codified - it's sad.

You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.

Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.

There's many ways you communicate. With colour, texture, sound... Even words can communicate.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

I happen to love creating handmade ornaments even when I mess up I still have fun.

In September of 2015, I did the unthinkable: I used my second-ever runway show to bring awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement. It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do professionally. It was lonely.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

I'm all about the highs and lows. I'm not a designer that thinks you need to spend a lot of money. You can get the look you want between thrift stores and stores like Ikea and Target.

Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.

One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.

I have a natural curiosity for people.

Everyone looks better and more alive in a pink shirt.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

We built our fashion around three fundamental concepts: Sicily, tailoring, and tradition. Our dream is to create a style which is timeless, and to create clothes with such a strong personality that whoever sees them can instantly say without a shadow of a doubt: this is a Dolce & Gabbana.

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.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

I like to do things that are step by step. It takes experience to get to the next level. And you have to put your heart into it.

I'm sticking to what I've always said, either the right movie gets made or no movie gets made.

I'm actually an incredibly disorganized, messy person.

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

We still haven't seen any cars take advantage of the electric powertrain in terms of how you proportion an electric vehicle versus traditional vehicles. Yes there's electric cars, but they haven't really done it in a beautiful way.

You don't want to look the same every day of your life. It's boring as hell.

I honestly think that with our generation - Alex Wang, Prabal Gurung, Jason Wu, Christian Cota, Robert Geller - there's a different expectation of what our behavior should be. People expect designers to be good businesspeople and PR people, and I don't think partying is a part of that persona the way it used to be.

The worst thing you can do is find your flaw and continually highlight it.

All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.