Designer Quotes - page 3

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design. (Eva Zeisel)
If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself. View quote
Eva Zeisel
If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. View quote
Guido van Rossum
I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work. View quote
Genevieve Gorder
Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them. View quote
Henry Norris Russell
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. View quote
Harry von Zell
After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team. View quote
Jimmy Choo
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad. View quote
Joe Wright
Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs. View quote
John Doerr
You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool. View quote
Kesha
I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton. (Kathleen Robertson)
I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear to show their kitty pride and that all animal lovers can wear in support of the ASPCA. View quote
Kellie Pickler
One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality. View quote
Ken Adam
I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between. View quote
Lori Foster
It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear. View quote
Lori Loughlin
Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special. View quote
Irving R. Kaufman
A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it. View quote
May-Britt Moser
We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972. View quote
Mink Stole
Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius. View quote
Nina Arianda
If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that. View quote
Ozwald Boateng
I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game. (Roberta Williams)
Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels. View quote
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it.' View quote
Scott Kim
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. View quote
Ted Allen
There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course. View quote
Terence Fisher