Inspirational Design Quotes

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended. ~ Raymond Loewy

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking. ~ Ellen Lupton

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us. ~ Winston Churchill

If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer.
We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question.
Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious. ~ Amory Lovins

Etch out the future on your own design. ~ Thomas Dolby

If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients. ~ Michael Bierut

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance. ~ Jon Franklin

But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is. ~ Marian Bantjes

I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it. ~ Bob Gill

Remember when you were little and you were suposed to love something? No one asked you why. You could just spend hours and hours on it, and nobody worried about whether you were going to turn it into anyting. It didn't have to be about anything ... productive. You could just paint or dance, or collect bugs or sea glass and it was just a lovely thing remember? ~ Kim Culbertson

O the divine, O my love, I don't want to seduce you with my wealth or splendor, but with my love and deepest gratitude. ~ Debasish Mridha

It is important that girls know the obstacles they will face throughout their lives, but it is also essential that they know that these obstacles are surmountable. Not only will they find ways to overcome them, but they can eliminate them for the women of the future, just as the women in this book have done. ~ Elena Favilli

You will see romance everywhere when your heart is dancing with love and joy. ~ Debasish Mridha

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. ~ Oscar Wilde

At the end, nothing else matters, except love and kindness that you gave away, and love and kindness that you received. ~ Debasish Mridha

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. ~ Elbert Hubbard

You never can grow unless you change. So fear the stagnation and embrace the change. ~ Debasish Mridha

It is obvious that any rather non-color, monochromatic design is safe, easier, more generally restful and with life being the hurdy-gurdy that it is, more and more of us prefer and interior giving the maximum response. ~ Van Day Truex

Oh, measure it all out! Acceptable levels of misery and suffering!' The cane swung down, thumped hard on the ground. 'Acceptable? Who the fuck says any level is acceptable? What sort of mind thinks that?'
Karsa grinned, 'Why, a civilized one.'
'Indeed!' Shadowthrone turned to Cotillion. 'And you doubted this one! ~ Steven Erikson

Those that are the hardest to love, need it the most. ~ Pattie Mallette

Truly honest people don't have many friends, but they do have real friends ~ Steven Aitchison

Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider. ~ Tibor Kalman

So much to see, so much to do.
So much adventure just waiting for you. ~ Debasish Mridha

As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful. ~ Swami Vivekananda

I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for? ~ Stephanie Lennox

When things feel murky and unsure, fine tuning our hearing so as to distinguish the voice of our Innermost Self brings clarity. ~ Kristi Bowman

When someone can love without judging, he is truly wise. ~ Debasish Mridha

Knowing how to fall is much more valuable than knowing how to walk. ~ Diogo Mainardi

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. ~ Juan Ramon Jimenez

Don't waste your time being angry. There are so many things we can't control, and being angry isn't going to change anything. ~ Teegan Loy

The man who said, "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed," put the eulogy quite inadequately and even falsely. The truth "Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised." The man who expects nothing sees redder roses than common men can see, and greener grass, and a more startling sun. Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall possess the cities and the mountains; blessed is the meek, for he shall inhereit the earth. Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are. ~ G.K. Chesterton

The conflict each day is whether to immerse in books or writing. I can't do one without the other, but I can't do both at the same time. It is the writer's paradox. ~ Patricia Hickman

You can make a difference in another person's life and not realize it, just by giving them One Moment of your time, One Memory to recall, One Motion that tells them they are not alone! OM! ~ Deb Simpson

Maybe it was hard before. Maybe you didn't know what to do or who to turn to. Maybe you wished and prayed for better days. Maybe it seemed like it would never end. But you survived. You survived. You did what you needed to do, and you made it. You are so much more courageous and stronger and smarter than you give yourself credit for. You are so much kinder and more compassionate than you realize. The fact that you even want to beat yourself up for how you handled your past shows that you believe you could have been a better person. Only good people feel that way. Only good people believe they could have been better. Only good people want to be better. So be good to yourself. Let it go and let yourself be better. It doesn't start with you hurting yourself; it starts with you being good to yourself. You deserve it. ~ Emily Maroutian

Revolution is the sound of your heart still beating. and as long as it is, you have work to do. Do it. Without apology. Do it. Bravely and nobly. Do it. Exist, insist, and by all means, resist. ~ Dominique Christina

If we knew when we woke up that it would be the last day of our lives, we would transform every little act of our daily humdrum into small farewells. ~ Alexandre A. Loch

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am joyful.
I am graceful. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We need to substitute 'trier' for failure. The word 'fail' is closely related to the word fall. A child taking his first step falls, cries and then tries again. Why does he try again? Because he wants to, but does not, know the meaning of failure. ~ Anup Kochhar

When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children. ~ Eva Zeisel

I am not a little bit of many things; but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not an incompletion of all these races; but I am a masterpiece of the prolific. I am an entirety, I am not a lack of anything; rather I am a whole of many things. God did not see it needful to make me generic. He thinks I am better than that. ~ C. JoyBell C.