Wonderful list of Design Quotes

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A wonderful list of design quotes can be found here. For example:

“In design sometimes one plus one equals three.”
Josef Albers.

“Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.”
Paola Antonelli, Museum of Modern Art.

“It's not rocket science. It's social science – the science of understanding people's needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.”
Clement Mok.

“...some graphic designers don’t just pick colours and take orders for typefaces.”
Chip Kidd.

“Everything is design. Everything!”
Paul Rand.

“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”
Steve Jobs, Apple Computer.

“Graphic design is a filtering process.”
Muriel Cooper.

"Design depends largely on constraints.”
Charles Eames.

“Designers solve problems for clients. Artists solve problems for humanity. The latter is the greatest problem.”
John Maeda.

"Style = Fart.”
Stefan Sagmeister.

"Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”
Frank Lloyd Wright.

“I see this as a business that affects people's lives and affects people's brains.”
Tibor Kalman.

“Think more, design less.”
Ellen Lupton.

"Design is creation in or alteration of the world to meet the needs and desires of people.”
Dirk Knemeyer, Thread Inc.

"it is the pervading law of all things organic... of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function.”
Louis Sullivan

“The most important skill for almost everyone in the next decade and beyond will be the ability to create valuable, compelling and empowering information and experiences for others.”
Nathan Shedroff.

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
Buckminster Fuller.