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" For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction. "

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David Milne

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New

" When shooting in real spaces, the work of a cinematographer begins where location meets production design meets time of day. No movie light will ever look as real as the sun, so scheduling becomes truly paramount to naturalistic lighting. "

" English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market. "

" I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer. "

" I would love to design a maternity clothing line. It is so hard to find stylish clothes for pregnant people... I would say 99 percent of the clothes I wore were not maternity because I couldn't find anything I liked. "

" I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting. "

" I got to train with some of the best and have critics like Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein. As a student under Calvin Klein, my project was to make a coat, and then years later, I was hired at Calvin, by Calvin, to design coats for him. It came full circle! "

" You can get the best locksmith in the world to design the best lock he can design, is it pick proof? No, it's not: it can be very hard to pick, but it is pickable. Because you can get, say, the next 10 best locksmiths, and give them unlimited money and time, they will figure out a way to pick it. "

" I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life is. "

" In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not. "

" With Eric Rohmer - as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust - we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos. "

" Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design. "

" My inspiration for interior design is more historical than traditional. "

" My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Design

Team

My Own

" Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure that you really need to design a unique campaign that fits the way I operate. "

" When I design a garment or a piece of accessory, the first question I ask myself is, 'Would I wear it?' "

" Programs like ACE's Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures. "

" Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power. "

" Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical. "

" A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. "

" I like the idea of people who've had some success in one form secretly wanting to be something else; I have some of that myself. I look for it in other people who've established themselves in some particular art form, and then you find out that they really would like to design running shoes, or edit literary magazines or something. "

" I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements. "

" A true flag is not something you can really design. A true flag is torn from the soul of the people. A flag is something that everyone owns, and that's why they work. The Rainbow Flag is like other flags in that sense: it belongs to the people. "

" Is there a way to design a room in my house where I float around? I would quite enjoy that. It's nuts. "

Karl Lagerfeld

" I'm looking for best practices constantly. Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me. "

Millard Drexler

Beautiful

Apple

" Porsche's and Apple's design philosophies are similar. Much like the 356, the original iPhone was about defining a foundation for the future. "

" My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good at making documentaries eventually, but people don't think of me for that, of course. But dialogue is something I know I can be good at. "

" Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time. "

" Practically, systemic thinking can be used to identify problems, analyze their boundaries, design strategies and policy interventions, forecast and measure their expected impacts, implement them, and monitor and evaluate their successes and failures. "

" As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. "