Kate Spade Quotes

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; it's too realistic. When I design, I dream.

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.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

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

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

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.

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

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.

'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable, that leave you with the sense that that's the only possible solution that makes sense.

For me, cooking is practical. That's the core of an engineer. Engineers are very practical designers and creative people. Every single thing I create has to have a purpose.

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

If something is functional, you no longer think about it. I care about how meaningful things are.

I believe what Wondaland is doing is creating depth.

When I look at a football pitch, I suppose, yes, I see it as my canvas. I see solutions, possibilities, the space to express myself. I am always looking for ways to be creative, to gain an edge.

Creative instinct is personal.