Designer quotes

Designer

239 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

239 quotes
Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen Actress, Comedian

"I'm having my platform run up by a movie set designer, so it will be very impressive from the front, but not too premanent. After all, there's no sense putting a lot of time and thought into something you'll have no use for after you're elected."

Herbert Simon
Herbert Simon Economist

"The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function."

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Sufjan Stevens Musician
Designer

"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."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Designer

"Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time!"

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Designer

"I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16."

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Emma Watson Actress, Activist
Designer

"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."

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Ted Allen Chef
Designer

"For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes."

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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
Designer

"When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'"

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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
Designer

"Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?"

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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
Designer

"No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am."

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Frida Giannini Fashion Designer
Designer

"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."

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Coco Rocha Model
Designer

"I always wear what I'm comfortable in. If one designer doesn't like what I'm wearing, the next one will."

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