Design Style Quotes

#1. Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .

Ansel Adams

#2. My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.

Michael Kors

#3. A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.

Fred Brooks

#4. Your new kitchen should look like it was "born there." That doesn't mean it has to be the exact same style as the house. (You can put a modern kitchen into a Victorian, for example.) It just means that it has to complement the spaces around it.

Jamie Gold

#5. Absurdity and anti - absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Karl Lagerfeld

#6. I created my bags from the notion of developing a well-edited line of fashionable, but not "trendy" handbags. By designing styles that will be as relevant tomorrow as they are today, my brand has established itself as a modern classic.

Kate Spade

#7. Never use the word "cheap". Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans - it's up to you.

Karl Lagerfeld

#8. There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.

Peter York

#9. Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

Edward R. Tufte

#10. My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

Venus Williams

#11. I try to absorb all types of style and design. I don't try and restrict my thinking. I enjoy the old and the new. You need that broad perspective to create something different.

Chad Hurley

#12. Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.

Martin Filler

#13. I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders.

Alessandra Ambrosio

#14. I should perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you.

Jonathan Swift

#15. To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

Elsie De Wolfe

#16. Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.

Jani Allan

#17. Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer.

Albert Hadley

#18. The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

Karl Lagerfeld

#19. By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

Martin Filler

#20. In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today,

Colleen Atwood

#21. I've teamed up with BaubleBar to curate a collection of gorgeous jewelry pieces. I worked closely with the BaubleBar team to design a collection that encompasses my style and all of my go to pieces.

Ashley Madekwe

#22. Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.

Nancy Lancaster

#23. The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.

Philip Schaff

#24. My vision is the ability to design clothes for a man who wants to create his own style and doesn't want to dress like he's in uniform, to look like the guy in the ad, or to feel like he has to put it together that way.

John Varvatos

#25. I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#26. Although people often equate them, glamour is not the same as beauty, stylishness, luxury, celebrity, or sex appeal. It is not limited to fashion or film; nor is it intrinsically feminine. It is not a collection of aesthetic markers - a style, as fashion and design use the word.

Virginia Postrel

#27. I love the way my tattoos look. I especially love Japanese-style tattoos and being completely sleeved by them, so it's not just these little individual and unrelated pieces, but everything's working together to create a larger design.

Nikki Sixx

#28. I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.

Anne Hathaway

#29. Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Karl Lagerfeld

#30. Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

Massimo Vignelli

#31. My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.

Jay Roach

#32. Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.

Ellen Lupton

#33. Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.

Donna Karan

#34. I'm designing what I want. If it's a man's coat with a pair of skinny-leg jeans, I'll do that. It's whatever my mood is. But it's about style, and it's about an understated taste that's cool.

Ralph Lauren

#35. Since Tezuka animated for Disney and was influenced by their animation and that of Max Fleischer. Tezuka's design was reminiscent of the Disney style of that era, but the nose was made smaller and the eyes slightly bigger, to show more emotion.

AlphaManga

#36. I'd call my work 'instinctual design.' I like to find the spirit of a piece that defies time, age, and occasion. My clothes give the wearer the chance to develop their own voice within a wardrobe, and I think of them as curators of their personal style.

Chris Benz

#37. Again, Saburo Tominaga once went to the Shirakawa Prefectural Office to cash his brother Morikuni's bonus bond and, unwilling to touch paper currency defiled with a foreign-style design, carried it home between chopsticks.

Yukio Mishima

#38. To have a style is to be stuck.

Jonah Lehrer

#39. Your style guide is your most loyal brand protector.

Dane Brookes

#40. While 'The Endless Summer' poster was designed at the Art Center College of Design in the contemporary style of its time, the image grew out of my relationship with Rick Griffin and our deep relationship to surf images.

John Van Hamersveld

#41. If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

Michael Graves

#42. I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.

Yves Behar

#43. In order to realize the goal of creating a new starting line that anyone can instinctively understand we have come up with a design that differs greatly from any of today's controllers. We have also made bold innovations in play style as well.

Satoru Iwata

#44. I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

Stefan Sagmeister

#45. It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own ... style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.

Nancy Lancaster

#46. I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

Nastia Liukin

#47. My own style is pretty classic; I much prefer to design for others.

Colleen Atwood

#48. Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

Lauren Hutton

#49. Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

Oscar Wilde

#50. I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court.

Maria Sharapova

#51. Don't think too much of style.

William Morris

#52. It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.

Keith Michael

#53. When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.

Nate Berkus

#54. To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a flower. The shape of a butterly's wing. The juxtaposition of an old tenement building next to a shiny new skyscraper.

Isaac Mizrahi

#55. Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that's always in style is color.

Brad Goreski

#56. Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

Isaac Mizrahi