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Designer Inspirational Quotes (9107)

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True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.
Serena Williams
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The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.
Issey Miyake
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It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.
Richard Rogers
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An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.
Hendrik Willem van Loon
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It's the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever.
Diane von Furstenberg
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The design industry is really pathetic.
Marc Newson
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The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.
John French Sloan
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My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.
Bob Dylan
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You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.
Stella McCartney
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Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.
Jesse James Garrett
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I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.
Paula Scher
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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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Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova.
Douglas Coupland
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To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
Man Ray
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
Jean Cocteau
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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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And then we moved to New Jersey and I went to the Art Students League.
Donald Judd
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Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me.
Stefan Sagmeister
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Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.
Steve Jobs
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Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.
Valentino Garavani
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
Valentino Garavani
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My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is.
Valentino Garavani
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I put the number 7 on my t-shirt because this is the number of my championships but also because it was the number of Barry Sheene, who was a great hero of mine and a truly great racer.
Valentino Garavani
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