Fred Brooks Quotes

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

I love fashion, and I simply enjoy good design in clothes and regard that as one of my hobbies.

Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

Good design makes a product understandable.

Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content.

It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.

I really love fashion and style.

My signature style is super uniformed. I like black pants, black blazers, and boots.

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.

There's no reason for unhappiness if you're living with nice design.

The director makes the movie. The director has to have the story in their head, has to know the style of the piece, has to answer questions from actors, design, set, lighting, every department throughout the pre-production, production, and post-production, because they've got it in their mind. They've got to know exactly what they want and what the style and story of the movie is. It's them. They make it.

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

Good design is honest.

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.

Style is the outcome of constraint.

I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be.

We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost.