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" When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. "

Tadao Ando

People

Space

Together

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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. "

" If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through. "

" Design is everything. Everything! "

Paul Rand

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Everything

" 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. "

" I went through the workroom at Central Saint Martins in London, which is the most competitive workroom of a design school in the world. Very high creativity, very conceptual, very international, age-diverse and cutthroat - people who have master degrees reapplying into a foundation there is just wild to me to launch their careers. "

Zac Posen

People

Creativity

" I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it. "

" The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me. "

" Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies. "

" I design for the woman who loves being a woman. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Being

Loves

Who

" I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left. "

" I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design. "

" The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design. "

" Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. "

" I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts. "

" You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.' "

" Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist. "

" 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. "

" I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world. "

" Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone. "

" Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. "

" There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it. "

" I like to think that the Internet and file sharing, if utilized properly and embraced, and I emphasize properly, is a high-powered marketing design. "

" 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. "

" Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design. "

Christopher Alexander

Problems

Environmental

Great

" Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse. "

" I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. "

" Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of 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. "

" It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out. "