Lenny Kravitz Quotes

With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

We have always thought about design as being so much more than just the way something looks. It's the whole thing: the way something works on so many different levels. Ultimately, of course, design defines so much of our experience.

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

The thing is, if you're a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs. When we make a new collection, we're changing shapes, we're changing patterns. We get a dress on a model, and it's our first time seeing what the dress really looks like on a woman's body.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell.

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.

A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together.

What I love about directing is finding common ground in complementary palate with wardrobe, set design, the camera department, the makeup department, et cetera. I love figuring out that synergy. To have everything work in concert is amazing, I love working with that kind of logic. Directing is a cavalcade of taste decisions - this one or that one, but I raather enjoy it and am in the process of setting up the next endeavor.

A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity.

Maybe it's because I'm a designer, but when I am in a state of excitement, everything is so sharp and colorful and amazing, and I can look at blue and I see the yellow in it and the green in it, and the green-blues, the yellow-blues, so.

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.

I look in my closet, and if I need it, I design it.

Good design means as little design as possible.

I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.

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

A design isn't finished until someone is using 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.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.

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