Design Inspiration Quotes:

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspiring, Business, Memorable, Veneer, Inspiring Business

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams

source: Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Arts, Creativeness

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

- Edwin Land

source: "A Genius and His Magic Camera". Life Magazine, October 27, 1972.

topic: Inspiring, Courage, Failure, Creative People, Innovation And Business

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Fake People, Software Design, Inspirational Design

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

- Jeffrey Veen

topic: Ideas, Design, Normalcy, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

- Jeffrey Zeldman

source: "Infographics and marketing: the good, the bad and the ugly" by Freddie Ossberg, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

topic: Design, Absence, Decoration, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Design is where science and art break even.

- Robin Mathews

topic: Art, Design, Break, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Design

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

- Paul Rand

topic: Art, Simple, Design, Inspirational Graphic Design, Inspiring Design

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Inspiring, Success, Writing, Software Design, Inspirational Design

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Witty, Business, Making A Living, Life Is Simple

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

- Robert L. Peters

topic: Design, Shapes, Culture, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

- Paul Rand

source: "Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.

topic: Death, Art, Simple, Inspirational Graphic Design, Good Design

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

- Leo Burnett

source: Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

topic: Creativity, Bad Ass, Thinking, Creative People, Innovation Inspiration

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

- Red Adair

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to -business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

- Clement Mok

topic: Mean, Technology, Order, Good Design, Design And Art

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

- Massimo Vignelli

source: Massimo Vignelli (2007). “Vignelli”, p.39, Images Publishing

topic: Discipline, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design, Best Design

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

- Stefan Sagmeister

topic: Art, Design, Pieces, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

- Chip Kidd

source: Chip Kidd (2008). “The Cheese Monkeys”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

topic: Falling In Love, Jobs, Technology, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

- Milton Glaser

topic: Mean, Design, Masters, Inspiring Design, Design And Art

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

- David Hockney

topic: Art, Moving, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Spiritual, Design, Misunderstood, Interior Design, Architectural Design

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Inspiring, Meaningful, Imagine That, Inspirational Design

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

- Paul Rand

topic: Inspirational, Ideas, Goal, Inspirational Design, Good Design

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

- Nolan Bushnell

topic: Motivational, Death, Inspiration, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Graphic Design

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

- Bill Moyers

topic: Creativity, Piercings, Mundane, Art And Creativity, Design Inspiration

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

- Charles Mingus

source: Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Music, Life Is Complicated, Life Is Simple

Design means being good, not just looking good.

- Clement Mok

topic: Mean, Design, Looking Good, Good Design, Design And Art

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

- Steve Jobs

topic: Men, Design, Soul, Veneer, Job Creation

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

- David Carson

topic: Rocks, Rock And Roll, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspiring Design

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

- Massimo Vignelli

source: Massimo Vignelli, Lella Vignelli, Images Publishing (2004). “Design is One”, p.4, Images Publishing

topic: Design, Graphic Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design, Design Inspiration

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Creativity, Mean, Thinking, Inspirational Graphic Design, Inspiring Design

The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.

- Massimo Vignelli

topic: Fashion, Fighting, Doctors, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Design

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

- Freeman Thomas

topic: Honesty, Design, Intuition, Trust Your Intuition, Good Design

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

- Hans Hofmann

source: 1967 Search for the Real.

topic: Inspirational, Business, Mean, Software Design, Life And Living

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

- Erik Adigard

topic: Philosophy, Design, Crafts, Software Design, Inspirational Design

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

- Pierre Bonnard

topic: Death, Color, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

- Ben Shneiderman

topic: Technology, Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, Thousand, Interfaces, Inspirational Design

Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

- Neville Brody

topic: Design, Digital, Painting, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

- Paula Scher

topic: Mistake, Order, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

- Henrik Fisker

topic: Art, Design, Inspirational Design, Best Design, Design And Art

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

- Paul Rand

source: Paul Rand (2017). “Design, Form, and Chaos”, p.30, Yale University Press

topic: Technology, Design, Reassuring, Inspirational Design, Inspiring Design

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

- Nate Berkus

topic: Book, Inspiration, Home, Design Inspiration

I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the 'luxury remodeling' bug. 'Million Dollar Rooms,' 'Million Dollar Listing'... any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home!

- Laz Alonso

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspiration, Home, Hands, Remodeling, Design Inspiration