Ross Lovegrove Quotes

#1. Often when I meet people and say I'm a designer, they say, 'Oh, a fashion designer.' Which is not a bad thing I suppose, a bit groovy.

Ross Lovegrove

#2. He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.

Scott Heim

#3. I've loved roller coasters since I was a kid.

Tommy Lee

#4. You have to be ahead of your game, and in industry that is a different condition than in art. If you make things in an intelligent way and then they are replicated, that's a beautiful thing. If you make things in a bad way and they are replicated, the wrong is multiplied.

Ross Lovegrove

#5. What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

James Frey

#6. Truth often sacrificed for the sake of stability and peace.

Toba Beta

#7. I rarely agree with what clients ask me to do.

Ross Lovegrove

#8. I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.

Ross Lovegrove

#9. No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am.

Lauren DeStefano

#10. Modern design becomes the eye catcher because it's out of context, it is something newborn and fresh, something people have never seen before. I mean, that in itself is the way we should sort of stimulate the senses of society, this urban condition.

Ross Lovegrove

#11. Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Pope Francis

#12. The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.

Ross Lovegrove

#13. My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me.

Susan Strasberg

#14. Temptation may knock on your door, but it will never congratulate you if you open it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. Who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining?

Benjamin Zander

#16. Misconceptions are like cockroaches: you have no idea where they came from, but they're everywhere - often where you don't expect them - and they're impervious to nuclear weapons.

Alex Reinhart

#17. You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

David Wong

#18. With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. It's one of those magical acts that is so poly-sensorial and culturally enriching that as a designer one is naturally drawn to the cult of the object

Ross Lovegrove

#20. If you're going to teach a child, teach him properly.

Stanley Williams

#21. You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

Ross Lovegrove

#22. I'm interested in natural growth patterns, and the beautiful forms that only nature creates. How that flows through me and how that comes out is what I'm trying to understand.

Ross Lovegrove