- A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.~ Douglas Adams
- Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.~ David Hockney
- A single word often betrays a great design.~ Jean Racine
- Bold in design, but timid in execution.~ Latin Proverb
- Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.~ Miguel De Cervantes
- Design in art is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.~ D. H. Lawrence
- Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.~ Eric Berne
- Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers — the rich.~ Stephen Bayley
- It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.~ Sir Richard Steele
- Design is not for philosophy — it’s for life.~ Issey Miyake
- Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michel Angelo! ~ Mark Twain
- Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.~ Samuel Johnson
- Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.~ Sir Terence Conran
- To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.~ Charles J. Givens
- We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny. ~ Lord Lytton
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