Delphine Arnault Quotes

Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

I ended up going to do a matches program at the state for industrial design. And from there, I got hired at IDEO to joint their design team there - and basically, you are starting as an industrial designer to design products - and then kept asking the question, 'What else can design accomplish? What else can design do?'

Design is everything.

You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.

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

One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the design team have worked together for 15-plus years, and there's a wonderful thing about learning as a group. A fundamental part of that is making mistakes together.

You can't refuse to move forward when you're educating in design, because that's what we're asking students to do the whole time.

I want to reiterate the fact that at the core of it all, I am a designer, a creator, and as a creative person, I will choose to be limitless in the extension models of my various ideas on design.

We have lots to learn in India when it comes to design, and that includes me! I'm constantly learning; that never stops.

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.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

The biggest challenge and the thing I find most enjoyable about being a designer is taking everything in and assimilating it for your perspective, hopefully making it relevant and interesting to people.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

Working on new projects gives you the opportunity to learn and absorb new things.

As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You need to have conviction and really just want to make people think in regards to doing interesting things.

I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to learn technically.

Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.