Designer Quotes

#1. If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.

Deborra-Lee Furness

#2. Did you design the door?'
'No.'
'Who did? The Unknown Designer?

Brandon Mull

#3. I'm a designer, not a businesswoman.

Georgina Chapman

#4. Fledgling designers need investment - but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman's shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer's namesake line, but only as what the French call a 'danseuse,' a plaything.

Suzy Menkes

#5. I think 'Overlord' has definitely benefited because I work with every single level designer, and working where we have space to tell the story. That's what it's all about - getting writers and storytellers involved in the team and being a back and forth process.

Rhianna Pratchett

#6. Designer turns daily common objects to sexy and interesting stuff but not necessarily functional.

Baris Gencel

#7. The designer shouldn't think of a simple dichotomy between errors and correct behavior; rather, the entire interaction should be treated as a cooperative endeavor between person and machine, one in which misconceptions can arise on either side.

Donald A. Norman

#8. I adore the designer B. Michael's curve-flattering gowns, but there is nothing better than jeans with a crisp white shirt.

Tamara Tunie

#9. Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away ... His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#10. A magazine to have style, must need and understand and invest in what jingles - not jiggles - in designer jeans.

Frances Lear

#11. I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

Patch Adams

#12. Once you think you have the formula for good design, you're dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.

Michael Vanderbyl

#13. All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddy's credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye and cover-up, wouldn't be more than average-looking, but with all that stuff look too plastic to be pretty.

Hannah Harrington

#14. Why is nature so ingeniously, one might even say suspiciously, friendly to life?
What do the laws of physics care about life and consciousness that they should
conspire to make a hospitable universe? It's almost as if a Grand Designer had it
all figured out.

Paul Davies

#15. I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

Frida Giannini

#16. Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

Oleg Cassini

#17. I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.

Francisco Costa

#18. Was that designer stubble on his jaw?

B. J. Daniels

#19. The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset.

Primo Angeli

#20. Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns in nature. (38)

Michael Shermer

#21. Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

Stanley Morison

#22. I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

Tommy Hilfiger

#23. Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

Ozwald Boateng

#24. I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

Christian Louboutin

#25. Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

Jane Jensen

#26. I'll go to an event wearing some designer gown and tens of thousands of dollars in jewels that were lent to me for the night, and I'll walk around and meet people who I always thought were such a big deal.

Blake Lively

#27. We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

Mink Stole

#28. Intuition, if you are fashion designer is really the key to everything. I just really have a feeling it's the right moment in time to create a new business model. Obviously I have facts and figures that could back that up. It isn't a gamble; it's a calculated risk.

Monita Rajpal

#29. A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Niklaus Wirth

#30. The universe began in an instant, is expanding, and exhibits design, order, and complexity. Every effect must have a Cause, and design must have a Designer.

Ray Comfort

#31. Sometimes it is not just good enough to see what you can do, what your degree can do, your make-up, designer wardrobes, not what republicans or Democrats can do or what people can do but it is far much better to see what God can do.

Patience Johnson

#32. Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

Douglas Wilson

#33. Looking mighty fine, if I do say so myself: red v-neck, dark denim, designer combat boots, and enough testosterone rolling off me to satisfy Nicki Minaj. Pow!

Victoria Scott

#34. Alexander Wang is a young designer, and his style is so profound. He took sports and street and kind of combined it into upscale high fashion. He made a white T-shirt a luxury.

ASAP Ferg

#35. I asked my interior designer to give me something appropriate for defiling virgins.

Nicki Elson

#36. Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

Rachel Roy

#37. I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.

Isabella Rossellini

#38. I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.

Donatella Versace

#39. A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom.

Donna Karan

#40. I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image ... My image is real ... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

Vivienne Westwood

#41. The greatest artist and web-designer ever is indeed a spider!

Munia Khan

#42. Historically, there is a fight between the sound designer and the composer. You see them in the mixing room and they're always fighting because the composer wants the music to be heard and the sound designer wants the sound to be heard.

Alfonso Cuaron

#43. I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.

Candice Olson

#44. To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

Cate Blanchett

#45. I've always aligned myself with a more modern, European fit. I maintain that fit is the thing that makes or breaks an outfit. Good tailoring trumps designer and price any day.

Henrik Lundqvist

#46. All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

Caio Fonseca

#47. Optimal design delivers information in ways that are useful, beautiful and improve the experience of all involved: audience, client and designer.

Maggie Macnab

#48. What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

Karl Lagerfeld

#49. I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.

Betsey Johnson

#50. I'm part of the first generation who grew up with manga [comics] and anime [animation], you know, after 'Godzilla.' I was absorbed with Ultraman on TV and in manga. The profession of game designer was created really recently. If it didn't exist, I'd probably be making anime.

Satoshi Tajiri

#51. Charles Jencks is the most notable landscape and garden designer to carry forward the 3500 BCE-1800CE landscape and garden design agenda.

Tom Turner

#52. The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa.

Chuck Wendig

#53. A good designer will actually design the company.

Donald A. Norman

#54. A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.

Leo Frankowski

#55. I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer. I'm the rapper. I'm the visionary. I'm the music producer. I'm the executive producer. I'm just going to end it off to be poetic: I'm the future of music.

Kanye West

#56. I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player,

David Cage

#57. I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars' costume designer, Mandi Line.

Lucy Hale

#58. The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative.

Lester Beall

#59. Each individual garment has its own customizations based on a collaboration between us and the designer. We say what we think our woman wants, and they say, 'This is what we think we can do with our production.'

Aslaug Magnusdottir

#60. There are two types of girls: those that can make cheap clothes look expensive and those that make designer clothes look cheap.

Lauren Santo Domingo

#61. There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

Leon Kass

#62. Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

Tim Gunn

#63. Fashion today is available to everybody in a way that it's never been before: you've got every designer you've ever heard of working for H& or Target. That's fantastic.

Anna Wintour

#64. 'Little Princess' was the first big movie that I did in America with big stages where we had kind of a different schedule to work. We had a great production designer, Bo Welch, and we had time to think about the movie in pre-production.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#65. I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.

Joan Collins

#66. You are the designer of your destiny; you are the author of your story.

Lisa Nichols

#67. In this funny debut, flashy Filipino fashion designer Boy Hernandez sees his American dream become a nightmare when he's ensnared in a terrorist plot and shipped to Guantanamo. Gilvarry nails the couture scene, but Boy's rough journey from Manolo to Gitmo is no joke.

Andrew Abrahams

#68. I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.

Karan Johar

#69. A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

Edith Head

#70. Maybe it's because I'm a designer, but when I am in a state of excitement, everything is so sharp and colorful and amazing, and I can look at blue and I see the yellow in it and the green in it, and the green-blues, the yellow-blues, so.

Tom Ford

#71. I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.

Emma Watson

#72. I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy.

Paul Johnson

#73. When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so you just dealt directly with the designer. We were all much closer back then.

Naomi Campbell

#74. I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

Vivienne Westwood

#75. We have the freedom to excel or inhibit our potential. You are the grand designer of your thoughts and emotions. At some level or another you are the one who chooses which thoughts to accept and which ones to ignore. That can be a very empower realization.

Michael Arndt

#76. A constant flickering confetti of butterflies showered the town of Darwin. Designer insects, I think of them now: there was something enormously wasteful, extravagant even, about the profusion of patterns and shapes and brilliant colours.

Peter Goldsworthy

#77. ... no industrial designer worth his salt, or our attention, has been trained to work exclusively on any particular product, unless by accident. What he has been trained to do is practice a process called design, a process that includes esthetic choices but does not consist only of them.

Ralph Caplan

#78. In the 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous - though, of course, they would not have used that phrase.

Richard Dawkins

#79. I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects.

Sufjan Stevens

#80. I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

Gianni Versace

#81. I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.

Oleg Cassini

#82. From since I could remember I've always been an artist, drawing, painting and so forth. I would also always draw made up rock n' roll characters in a band who each had their own style and personalities. I think by accident I was already becoming a fashion designer.

Ashley Purdy

#83. I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.

David Chipperfield

#84. When a designer gives you a bill, what do you see it as? An expense, right? When a designer gives me a bill, I see it as an investment. For me, it is something that appreciates and helps your business grow.

Neil Patel

#85. Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

Salma Hayek

#86. As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.

Rachel Zoe

#87. I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer.

Naomie Harris

#88. I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!

Kanye West

#89. He was a really energetic person and desperately keen for his son to succeed. He was simply a caring father who tried to make sure that Jony had all the best opportunities to get on as a designer.

Leander Kahney

#90. Interestingly one aspect of a designed tool is that it will inevitably be used in ways which were not anticipated by the designer.

Ros Sutherland

#91. As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense.

Gaspard Ulliel

#92. Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#93. I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.

Ray Bradbury

#94. The zealous display the strength of their belief, while the judicious show the grounds of it. - WILLIAM SHENSTONE, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POET AND LANDSCAPE DESIGNER

Josh Kaufman

#95. As an actress, you're part of what the director is creating, and as a model, you're representing a designer's vision.

Lou Doillon

#96. I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#97. When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

Annabelle Selldorf

#98. I don't think I could ever stop being a game designer, that's just where my brain is going to be at until I'm in the coffin.

Chris Avellone

#99. I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style.

Tom Ford

#100. How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.

Ashly Lorenzana