The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.
Vivienne WestwoodThere’s place and means for every man alive.
William ShakespeareWe no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.
Douglas AdamsI have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.
Billie EilishWhy should poetry have to make sense?
Charlie ChaplinLife has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul SartreYou can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt DisneyI design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
Vivienne WestwoodI don’t think of poetry as a ‚rational‘ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
Margaret AtwoodArt is to be free. Design is to fix.
Kanye WestYou will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert CamusBlack-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
Karl LagerfeldWork gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Stephen HawkingMyths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Margaret AtwoodI’ve got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.
Vivienne WestwoodWords differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Blaise PascalI love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
Taylor SwiftLife is our dictionary.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
Brian EnoDistance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
BonoLike any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
Bill GatesWe might as well die as to go on living like this.
Charlie ChaplinThey can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David ThoreauNature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard P. FeynmanMany things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
Samuel JohnsonMaybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.
Dr. SeussIt’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.
Katharine HepburnWords may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin FranklinTo live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich NietzscheReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. LewisNo one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry AdamsA lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
Steve JobsIf Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
Bill ShanklyAll meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
George EliotMeals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.
Anthony BourdainIt’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
Jordan PetersonWe shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston ChurchillWe are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.
Vivienne WestwoodIn designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
Oscar WildeIf any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
Bertrand RussellI call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThings in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.
Joyce MeyerThe meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl MarxDesign is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.
Steve JobsWe made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.
Steve JobsThe design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.
Steve JobsLyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that’s what the music is about.
Brian EnoMy fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Huey NewtonIf you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.
Bill GatesFashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco ChanelDesign is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve JobsWhy are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
Woody AllenNo man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry AdamsHouses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis BaconIn a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.
David ByrneIf particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
PlatoThe artist in me cries out for design.
Robert FrostFashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Coco ChanelWhat do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie Chaplin