33 Evergreen Design, Innovation & Creativity Quotes to Inspire Your Design Work
In this blog post, we have collected evergreen design quotes from great designers, authors and marketers. Hope you find them inspiring. Feel free to share your favorite quotes in the comment section below.
- “Design can be art. Design can be simple. That’s why it’s so complicated.” –Paul Rand
- “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs
- “People ignore designs that ignore people” –Frank Chimero
- “Design is thinking made visual.” —Saul Bass
- “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” – Walt Disney
- “Design is thinking made visual.” –Saul Bass
- “Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.” – Henry Petroski
- “Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things; it’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda and philosophy.” —Erik Adigard
- “Space is the breath of art.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
- “Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.” -Brian Reed
- “Color does not add a pleasant quality to design—it reinforces it.” —Pierre Bonnard
- “The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” — Edwin H. Land
- “Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.” – Charles Eames
- “A logo derives meaning from the quality of the thing it symbolizes, not the other way around.” —Paul Rand
- “Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.” –Jeffrey Zeldman
- “Good design is good business.” – Thomas J. Watson
- “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” — Albert Einstein
- “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
- “Typography is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.” — Steve Byers
- “Design is about enabling ideas, processes and products: making them approachable, usable, desirable and memorable.” — Jay Dutta
- “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary” – Pablo Picasso
- “Design is Creativity with Strategy.” — Robert Curedale
- “Design is like a mom, nobody notices when she’s around, but everybody misses her when she’s not.” — Santiago Borray
- “Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.” –Robert L. Peters
- “Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” — Theodore Levitt
- “Design is a mix of Craft, Science, Storytelling, Propaganda, and Philosophy. ” — Erik Adigard
- “Creativity is magical, but is not magic.” — Charles Limb
- “When typography is on point, words become images.” ― Shawn Lukas
- “Color is a creative element, not a trimming.” – Piet Zwart
- “Tech without design is the business’s perdition.” — Vital Lokossou
- “The most effective way to make a design usable is to make it interesting enough that people want to use it.” — Bryan Grezeszak
- “Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.” — Juan Carlos Fernandez
- “Creativity Is Thinking Up New Things. Innovation Is Doing New Things.” – Theodore Levitt
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