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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Manolo Blahnik

Design is an unknown.

Geoffrey Beene

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.

Mike Davidson

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

Charles Eames

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

Harry Bertoia

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

Donald Norman

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Herbert Simon