Dwyane Wade Quotes

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

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

We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of creative, sensitive people. We have our charmed little world where we get to make things. We're really lucky.

A lot of my friends inspire my style, and they don't even know it.

When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.

Designers don't live in a vacuum; they are not blind to what's going on. They, too, will be inspired by what they see, and that will come out in their work.

Kanye West is a brilliant poet and artist. He and I work in a very similar way. We feel the vibration, the power of something, and it inspires us to create, whether it is music or design. It is the same process. Working with Kanye is a joy and great privilege. In 2012, we did collaboration together.

With the clothes I design, I think about my friends, how I'd want them to dress, what I'd want them to wear.

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.

I think we want to be around people that kind of push us and inspire us and maybe teach us.

Fashion is like food! Some people like sushi, others think hamburgers are divine! People like different things!

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

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

I think fashion has a lot to do with passion and that's where you get your inspiration.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

When it comes to designing your first apartment, I think people get overwhelmed and end up collecting pieces that don't always mesh well together because they don't have a clear vision. Take your time and use tools that can help inspire and guide you through the process.

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

What I think is so great about interviews, is when people cite inspirations.

I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

My work is really the accumulation of these different moods that I've had throughout my life and where they've taken me. I start looking back, and I think, I've actually created a life out of all this, out of these changes of mood. They've pushed me through all these years, and I seem to have a semblance of a life, and if I look very carefully, I can see some thematic design to it. There's some continuity.

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.