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Quotes by Designer

"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll."

"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."

"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

"We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is."

"Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand."

"I feel very, very proud that so many people have copied me."

"I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with."

"I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant."

"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."

"Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response."


"If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris."

"Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors."

"Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day."

"So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time."

"I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right."

"An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful."

"Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture."

"Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam."

"Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."

"The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique."
Race,

"My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen."

"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."

"I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."

"But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it."

"Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin."
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