Famous Lighting Designer Quotes

Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer. ~ Douglas Wilson

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that. ~ Kevin McCloud

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers. ~ Janet Echelman

I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy. ~ Nicky Hilton

I don't need designer things. And YOU are designer, Rush. ~ Abbi Glines

You got your designer blue jeans, your designer shoes, your designer luggage. Now Miss Fancy Pants got her some designer pussy. ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Ursula Nordstrom was famous for finding artists in unlikely places. Maurice Sendak was a window designer, and she just came across one of his windows. Everyone was looking to find a talent. ~ Peter Sis

I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well. ~ Dale Chihuly

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer. ~ Lori Loughlin

I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker. ~ L'Wren Scott

Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone. ~ Bob Teague

Be the designer of your own destiny. ~ Oscar De La Renta

How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the designer specifies building materials and assembly instructions. (4) Finally, the designer or some surrogate applies the assembly instructions to the building materials. What emerges is a designed object, and the designer is successful to the degree that the object fulfills the designer's purpose ~ William A. Dembski

I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one. ~ Candice Olson

Life is all about seating and lighting. ~ Graydon Carter

I drive around on my scooter in Milan alone - we don't have bodyguards or anything like that. I am a fashion designer, not a celebrity, and although I get stopped for autographs and the like, I don't think I am famous. ~ Stefano Gabbana

famous fashion designer ~ Carolyn Keene

Some people build roads and then walk ~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

I don't want to be famous for being famous. ~ Kelli O'Hara

The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer. ~ Alvin Lustig

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. ~ Van Morrison

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ~ Gloria Leonard

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna. ~ Wendelin Van Draanen

I wanted to be a fashion designer. ~ Heidi Klum

Everything is really about lighting. ~ Robert Denning

Everyone shines, given the right lighting. ~ Susan Cain

The lighting is so important. One thing that makes me nuts about the lighting now is that they spend an enormous amount of time lighting the set, the background. But the most important thing in the scene is the actor. ~ Donna Mills

It is very satisfying to see that my dream of LED lighting has become a reality. ~ Shuji Nakamura

I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better. ~ Cat Deeley

If you say that you're a cheap designer, you're a cheap designer. It's really hard to recover from that. ~ Jessica Hische

No matter what, I always have expensive designer shoes. It's all about the shoes for me. ~ Bonnie McKee

I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were ~ George Nelson

There is no better designer then nature ~ Alexander McQueen

A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one ~ Virginia Woolf

I'm obsessed with lighting. I'm constantly shopping for different lightbulbs. I love rainbow lightbulbs. And also, one should not live without dimmers. Life is all about lighting. ~ Stevie Nicks

I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting. ~ Danielle Steel

The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another. ~ Liam Neeson

Throughout my pictures I employ a lighting which is not naturalistic. ~ Douglas Sirk

I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer. ~ Milton Glaser

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous. ~ Bo Burnham

Lighting is everything in a color. ~ Diana Vreeland

Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at. ~ Michael Bierut

I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer. ~ Naomie Harris

I'm a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept. ~ Tommy Hilfiger

I'm the first American designer who went all over the world. ~ Oleg Cassini

I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion. ~ Bonnie Wright

I'm an unbelievable designer. ~ Serena Williams

To invoke the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing - for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer. ~ Richard Dawkins

We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains. ~ Tom Robbins

A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle. ~ Rumi

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life. ~ Cate Blanchett

I'm a fashion designer. What I do is artistic, but I'm not an artist because everything I do is destined to be sold. That's not to say that you can't be an artist and a fashion designer. I think some designers are artists. ~ Tom Ford

For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes. ~ Ted Allen

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. ~ Peter Carey

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous. ~ Dallas Clayton

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame. ~ Johnathon Schaech

Every human being is a designer ~ Norman Potter

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! ~ Marie Windsor

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good. ~ Vivienne Westwood

I start lighting pine-scented candles the day after Halloween. ~ Mary Page Keller

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't. ~ Trey Parker

Perhaps one day even I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you."
"I doubt it. ~ Madeline Miller

You wish to sail a ship up stream by lighting a fire under its decks, I have no time for such nonsense. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The designer ... has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a simple fix. The designer has a dream that goes beyond what exists, rather than fixing what exists ... the designer wants to create a solution that fits in a deeper situational or social sense. ~ David E. Kelley

Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer. ~ Calvin Klein

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous. ~ Noomi Rapace

I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle. ~ Matthew Williamson

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think. ~ Dolph Lundgren

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. ~ Jane Porter

Your chances of getting hit by lighting go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say Storms suck!! ~ Johnny Carson

I think God is the most fantastic designer. ~ Roberto Cavalli

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place. ~ Seneca The Younger

I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know? ~ Vivienne Westwood

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him. ~ Carine Roitfeld

I had a lot of fun with my costume designer. ~ Adam Lambert

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire. ~ William McDonough

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be. ~ Paola Antonelli

I am the oldest young designer in New York City. ~ Michael Kors

There is this power that comes with being famous. ~ Rod Stewart

However statistically improbable the entity you seek to explain by invoking a designer, the designer himself has got to be at least as improbable. God is the Ultimate Boeing 747. ~ Richard Dawkins

I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between. ~ Lori Foster

A good designer finds an elegant way to put everything you need on a page. A great designer convinces you half that shit is unnecessary. ~ Mike Monteiro

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent. ~ Rachel Sklar

I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer. ~ Kate Spade

I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career. ~ Jason Wu

I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer. ~ Betsey Johnson

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people. ~ Charlie Kaufman

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent. ~ Kat Dennings

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled. ~ Christian Lacroix

My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best ~ Oscar De La Renta

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary. ~ Raf Simons

I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant. ~ Francisco Costa

If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man. ~ J.B. Priestley

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it. ~ Isaac Mizrahi

Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director. ~ Andrew Lau

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer. ~ Jonathan Ive

Me, as a designer who is not exactly skinny, all I want is comfortable clothes. ~ Alber Elbaz

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. ~ Tom Felton

A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is. ~ Leo Frankowski

I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up. ~ Iris Apfel