Famous Quotes

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

Charles Eames on Design

More quotes about Design

• "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

  Steve Jobs on Design

• "You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

  Walt Disney on Design

• "The artist in me cries out for design."

  Robert Frost on Design

• "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Design

• "Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."

  Erma Bombeck on Design

More quotes by Charles Eames

• "In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."

• "Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."

• "Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."

• "To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need."

• "The details are not the details. They make the design."