Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.

A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.

To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

Everything starts with design.

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

It's a bad plan that can't be changed.

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

Every plan I have is the best plan in the room.

So far, designing is the most exciting thing. Ive done I have a vision of what I want the clothes to look like in my mind and its fun to see it come alive on paper.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

Before you can get what you want, you have to know what you want,and make a game plan to get it

I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

Never make a promise without a plan.

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.