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Furniture Designer Inspirational Quotes (170)

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As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.
Frank Gehry
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We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women.
Robert Adam
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When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.
Frank Gehry
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After a year of doing general farm work, it was quite clear to me that chickens and I were not compatible.
George Nakashima
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I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.
Frank Gehry
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Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.
Frank Gehry
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I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.
Frank Gehry
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Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work.
Frank Gehry
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People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.
Frank Gehry
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We are a landscape of all we have seen.
Isamu Noguchi
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It is said that stone is the affection of old men. That may be so. It is the most challenging to work. A dialogue ensues – of chance no chance, mistakes no mistakes. No erasing or reproduction is possible, at least in the way I work, leaving nature’s mark. It is unique and final.
Isamu Noguchi
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Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me of simplification, to cut down to the simplest possible elements of four legs, a seat and combined top rail and arm rest.
Hans Wegner
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The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.
Frank Gehry
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The art of stone in a Japanese garden is that of placement. Its ideal does not deviate from that of nature.
Isamu Noguchi
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I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.
Frank Gehry
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Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry
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Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head?
Richard Schultz
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So what is design all about? It [exists to] decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world ... to make the world a better place to be. It doesn’t have to be one style. We’re not talking about style, we’re talking about quality. Style is tangible, quality is intangible. I am talking about giving to everything that surrounds us a level of quality.
Massimo Vignelli
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Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable.
Frank Gehry
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You sit better on a colour that you like
Verner Panton
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People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.
Frank Gehry
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It comes to me every day of my life that a home spirit is being awakened amongst us, that as a nation we are beginning to realize how important it is to have homes of our own, homes that we like, that we have been instrumental in building, that we will want to have belong to our children.
Gustav Stickley
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I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.
Frank Gehry
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I perceive my limitations even as I work. There are times when I see nothing but restrictions, barriers. Learning takes time.
Isamu Noguchi
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