Clive Thompson Quotes

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.

I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

We don't need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

Design is a vital component to the enrichment of our everyday lives. Japan has a very rich history and culture of design, and I feel it is a very important dialogue to open and keep evolving.

An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.

When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

The main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

Design - pure beauty - will be number one at Fisker Coachbuild. We want to bring beautiful, desirable cars to the market, limit the production of each model, and do so with the highest quality.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

There is no art without Eros.

If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.

Your priority has to be the creativity - and build a brand. That's what everybody did - Balenciaga, Dior, Saint Laurent. That's the smart thing to do.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they're called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We're all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life.

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.