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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-Douglas Adams
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Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers
-Stephen Bayley
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Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?
-Philip Caldwell
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Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
-Sir Terence Conran
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Retail is detail.
-James Gulliver
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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
-David Hockney
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Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works.
-Steve Jobs
Quote from 2003 New York Times article about the iPod.
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ARCHITECTURE, n: The art of how to waste space.
-Philip Johnson
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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Design is not for philosophy -- it's for life.
-Issey Miyake
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Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
-Eliel Saarinen, "Time", July 2, 1956
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Architecture in general is frozen music.
-F.W.J. Schelling
Philosophie der Kunst
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Form follows function.
-Louis Henri Sullivan, "Lippincott's Magazine", March, 1896
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Less is more.
see Browning
-Mies Van der Rohe
attributed, "York Herald Tribune", June 28, 1959
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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
-Mies Van der Rohe
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In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
-Henry Watton
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The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.
-E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
-William Butler Yeats
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Books about Design
