"While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest."

Design, College, Rain

74

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest."

Exlpore more Design quotes

"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."

Steve Jobs, American Businessman

Design, Essence, Creation

"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

Design, Danger, Delay, Ruin

"My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone."

Jay Roach, American Director

Design, Film, Sense, Style

"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."

Giorgio Armani, Italian Designer

Design, Time, People, Virtue

"The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect."

Carson McCullers, American Novelist

Design, Colors, Intellect, Mind

"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."

Ralph Lauren, American Designer

Design, Dreams, Clothes

"I have yet to learn that I am not designed to carry the burden of men. Rather, I am designed to carry the love of God so that I might soothe the burden of men."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Design, Truth, Faith, Power, Wisdom

"Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture."

Ellen DeGeneres, American Comedian

Design, Creativity, Art, Passion

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Design, Performance

"At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time."

Roger Staubach, American Athlete

Design, Time, Clients, Company

Explore more quotes by John Dyer

"My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect."

Art

"I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing."

Age

"I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work."

Work

"The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea."

Time

"I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work."

Work

"I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love."

Love

"The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside."

Work

"The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one."

Artist

"I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time."

Love

"St Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing."

Home