Thom Browne Quotes

Every designer has to stand behind and believe in what they are creating.

Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.

It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.

We won't do something different for different's sake. Designers cave in to marketing, to the corporate agenda, which is sort of, 'Oh, it looks like the last one; can't we make it look different?' Well no, there's no reason to.

Trends are dangerous; you will fail if you design for them. You cannot follow the work of others. I have my own DNA, my own formula. I always stay true to myself and to the brand.

When I do an editorial or when I do a campaign, I bring that lens to every space.

I have a lot to learn from designers.

I'm a designer, not a businesswoman.

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

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

Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

I want to show my personality through my designs and stay pretty anonymous outside the industry.

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.

I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

As a designer, I'm not interested in trend.

You always need a textural landscape. I think that's what fashion is about, and I think when you come to a brand and you're trying to re-instill its history, the history only comes through being personal.

Innovation and thoughtful visual storytelling are deeply woven into the fabric of Getty Images.

Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.

Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.