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Furniture Designer Inspirational Quotes (170)

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Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it, we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a beautiful context for life's drama.
Frank Gehry
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If you do the best thing everyday of your life, but nothing shakes you nor shakes the table for you and others, it is stale and its not worth it.
Massimo Vignelli
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You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did.
Isamu Noguchi
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I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.
Isamu Noguchi
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You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
Frank Gehry
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One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.
Frank Gehry
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Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.
Massimo Vignelli
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There is an order to our environment, a broader order.
Frank Gehry
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In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.
Frank Gehry
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People say, This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me. Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.
Frank Gehry
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Good design is ubiquitous and forever.
Massimo Vignelli
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Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.
Massimo Vignelli
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The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.
Frank Gehry
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I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.
Frank Gehry
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The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
Gustav Stickley
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Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.
Frank Gehry
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You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.
Frank Gehry
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Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.
Frank Gehry
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Art should become as one with its surroundings.
Isamu Noguchi
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In design, be logical, search for truth, be clear.
Massimo Vignelli
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We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me.
Frank Gehry
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Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.
Frank Gehry
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Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.
Frank Gehry
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There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
Gustav Stickley
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