44 Quotes by Design

Design cannot rescue failed content.

The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected.

Make it like a sunflower.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.

I don’t want something special. I want something beautifully plain.