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" 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. "

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" I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be. "

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" In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled. "

" 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. "

" Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. "

" For the most part, my house stays the same over the years. I tend to design with pieces that feel timeless to me, so I'm not constantly rearranging my home. "

Joanna Gaines

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" Design is an unknown. "

Geoffrey Beene

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" I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in. "

" If budget planning requires gathering information from people who may not always have the incentive to disclose that information, then the principles of mechanism design can definitely be of use in such planning. "

" We struggle with the right words to describe the design process at Apple. But it is very much about designing and prototyping and making. "

" As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't. "

" The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. "

Harry Bertoia

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" Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. "

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

" I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design. "

" I've always loved fashion design. I love drawing and creating looks and styling. "

" Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out. "

" Designing was always something I was interested in. I studied fashion design in high school as well as how to sew. "

" Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult. "

" Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. It's safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them. "

" Good design doesn't date. Bad design does. "

" The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. "

" I think when people have the freedom to tell their own story rather than trying to be specific to a certain design or style, there's more freedom, and it ends up feeling more like home. Those spaces we see in magazines and on the Internet are beautiful, but if there's not that story there, then it's going to lack that feeling of home. "

" As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings. "

" My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product. "

" Trends are dangerous; you will fail if you design for them. You cannot follow the work of others. I have my own DNA, my own formula. I always stay true to myself and to the brand. "

" Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make them better. "

" The interesting thing about Android's design is how little we modified the kernel. "

" There are usually three sections of people who like my work. There are those who like them aesthetically. They see beauty in the images. Second, there are those who like the horror aspect, which is by design, and I like that. Third, there are those who are moved by the historical or political nature of them. They want to talk about them. "

" I'm a perfectionist. And that's served me very well in my career. It allows me to handle these large, complex problems without letting things fall through the cracks... That is the mentality you have to have to attack these complex problems of chip design, for example, when you're overwhelmed with complexity. "

" I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings. "