Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Designers - Page 4

As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.

I want you to know that focusing on someone else's failure or success is the wrong way to live.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

The drawings in 'Portal' were actually me scribbling that stuff... I had a funny moment when I realized that someone gotten 'The cake is a lie' tattooed on themselves. It was really interesting to see my handwriting tattooed on another human being. That... that's odd.

For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.

That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.

I like simple, I like quality, and I like less. Do I like a certain aesthetic? Yeah.

A good story never dies.

The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India.

Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.

Design is an unknown.

We still see that people don't really realize that electric cars are here right now. And when we show up with an actual vehicle, and you see it drive away under its own power, it's still kind of a jaw-dropping moment for a lot of people.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

I'm an incurable romantic, and Casablanca's one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical.

I love 'Gabriel Knight' and will always be proud of it. Despite the fact that I've done many other things, it seems to be the one thing that people remember. I hope 'Gray Matter' is as memorable.

I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

I don't particularly like the word average because when it comes down to it there is no average in people. Everybody has their own streak of uniqueness within them.

One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

Forget all you know & learn something every day.

As a kid, I would look at my dad and ask him why he was wearing jeans with his tux. Today I love to do it. It's just fun to be a little more unique.

To be connected to the real world is healthy and important.

When people told me that I couldn't do something, I wanted to always prove them wrong. That comes a lot from people always bullying me because of my size and not thinking that I could do anything to impact the world or inspire other people.

I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.

I used to play football, and then my wife bought me a fishing rod.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.

I never go out during the day without sunglasses.

I've only dealt with fabulous brides!

I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.

A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone.

Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.

Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.

Don't focus on negative things; focus on the positive, and you will flourish.

I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.

What I never wanted in art - and why I probably didn't belong in art - was that I never wanted viewers. I think the basic condition of art is the viewer: The viewer is here, the art is there. So the viewer is in a position of desire and frustration. There were those Do Not Touch signs in a museum that are saying that the art is more expensive than the people. But I wanted users and a habitat. I don't know if I would have used those words then, but I wanted inhabitants, participants. I wanted an interaction.

I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

I've always loved the rustic, slightly worn style of Canvas and that element of an artisanal hand. It's so inherently chic.

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

I like having a tailor everywhere because I am everywhere.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

Fabric is the foundation of a collection.

Florence is charming, cozy, beautiful, inspiring - it has so many great places to go to and so many unique things to see that you won't find anywhere else!

You put high heels on and you change.

The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same.

I'm a big believer in small, dark, cozy bedrooms. I would describe myself as introspective - I feel things first, and then I think them through - and I need the enveloping comfort of a little squirrel's nest when I have to retreat from the world to recharge.

People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.

My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.

Art is made in hindsight.

My breakfast is very important.

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

I always have my Bose headphones. I have to have the noise-cancelling headphones.