30+ Inspirational Quotes About Design

Some artists or designers inspire us with their amazing work but some other artists also inspire us with their thought provoking quotes. The beautiful quotes I am sharing here are all about design. You can see how other designers think about the ‘design’ and what do they have to say.

Enjoy the collection and as always you are more than welcome to share your favorite quote.

Charles Eames

Design is an expression of the purpose, and it may (if it is good enough) later be judged as art; design depends largely on constraints and it is a method of action (there are always constraints and these usually include ethic).

Douglas Adams

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Milton Glaser

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

John D. Berry

Only when the design fails does it draw attention to itself; when it succeeds, it’s invisible.

Scott Adams

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.

Freeman Thomas

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

Milton Glaser

There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.

Jenaiha Woods

Design is the contrast of the core of limitations therefore there are no boundaries. It is simply an interpretation of creativity.

Jeffery Veen

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.

Jan Tschichold

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

Massimo Vignelli

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

Paola Antonelli

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

Erik Adigard

Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

Roi James

Great design is all about details. With innovative material selection, sensible construction techniques and modern aesthetics one can craft a unique design language that sets a new standard.

Jeff I. Richards

Creative without strategy is called ‘art’. Creative with strategy is called ‘advertising’.

Nolan Bushnell

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Hans Hofmann

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Jon Franklin

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

Edward R. Tufte

Confusion and clutter are the failure of design, not the attributes of information.

Robin Mathew

Design is where science and art break even.

Henry David Thoreau

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Salvador Dali

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Charles Eames

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

Brian Reed

Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.

Frank Chimero

People ignore design that ignores people.

Aaron Russell

Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration.

Mieke Gerritzen

Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.

Bruno Munari

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

Juan-Carlos Fernàndez

Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.

Leisa Reichelt

Don’t design for everyone. It’s impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy.

Wim Crouwel

You can’t do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

Brian Webb

I would show my my jobs to my mother, and she would always say the same thing: “That’s nice dear.” And then she would say, “Did you write it?” or “Did you do the drawing?” or “Did you take the pictures?” I’d always answer “no,” then I realized the problem. My answer was then, “I made this happen. It’s called design.”

Frank Chimero

Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.

Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Robert H. Schuller

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.

Pablo Picasso

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Beautiful Quote But Unknown Author

While collecting these beautiful quotes I found one quote which was posted by unknown author I like it very much. Here it is

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