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Design Quotes
"For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation."
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"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."
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"The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living."
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"The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair."
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"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."
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"To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past."
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"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."
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"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
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"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."
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"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."
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"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."
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