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" I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. "
Richard Powers
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" I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots. "
James Cameron
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" I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation. "
Pharrell Williams
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" I think the fact that my parents weren't conventional - especially considering their position - had a big influence on the way that I conduct myself now in design and business. It had a huge impact on my wanting to do something a bit more than just designing a pretty dress and putting it on a runway and making it glamorous. "
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" Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. "
Kenzo Tange
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" I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality. "
Marc Newson
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" I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves. "
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" I had given a presentation on design and happiness for quite a long while at design conferences. I had found thinking about the topic helpful for my own practice, as it forced me to consider the fundamentals, and the feedback from the audience was always enthusiastic. "
Stefan Sagmeister
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" Design can overcome our most deeply rooted stranger-danger bias. "
Joe Gebbia
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" There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it? "
Michael Kors
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Enjoy
Life
" Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse. "
Anouska Hempel
Way
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Keep
" Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses itself in nearly the same form always. "
Isabella Bird
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Said
" Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design. "
Eva Zeisel
Through
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Emotions
" Fashion and interior design are one and the same. "
Iris Apfel
Interior
Design
Fashion
" Programs like ACE's Bootstrap Summer Camp teach our kids important computer coding skills that will allow them to design their own futures. "
Gina Raimondo
Skills
Important
Teach
" I've always loved fashion design. I love drawing and creating looks and styling. "
Lily Collins
Design
Loved
Fashion
" I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment. "
Ralph Lauren
Design
Boss
Think
" I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. "
Len Wein
Class
Art
College
" What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor. "
Douglas Wilson
Bold
People
Fearless
" Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven. "
Sofia Coppola
Me
Acting
Design
" Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications. "
Drew Endy
Design
Understanding
Want
" When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it. "
Renzo Piano
Design
Building
You
" If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. "
Guido van Rossum
Language
Design
Decide
" A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end. "
Jonathan Ive
Change
Process
Small
" It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake. "
Junius
Wrong
Design
Mistake
" With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad. "
Tim Gunn
Need
Design
You
" We are spiritual beings whether we want to admit it or not, and inherent in our DNA is a design to return us home - home to our true essence, our greatest self, our limitless self. "
Debbie Ford
True
Home
Design
" To be the Grand Marshal of the most recognized Halloween parade in the world is so much fun. People plan for months and months to design their costumes, and it is amazing. It is a true competition and amazing to watch everyone. "
Elvis Duran
People
Amazing
Competition
" The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream. "
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Curiosity
Information
Absolutely
" I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality. "
Zaha Hadid
I Am
Always
Design
" Design has become a universal medium for expressing ideas, raising fundamental questions, and addressing social challenges. "
Jens Martin Skibsted
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Challenges
Design