100 Interior Design Quotes by Famous Designers

Here are over 100 interior design quotes by famous designers:

1. "An interior is the natural projection of the soul." – Coco Chanel
2. "The best rooms have something to say about the people who live in them." – David Hicks
3. "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." – Steve Jobs
4. "Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose." – Charles Eames
5. "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep." – Scott Adams
6. "An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail." – Edwin Land
7. "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." – William Morris
8. "Design is thinking made visual." – Saul Bass
9. "Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent." – Joe Sparano
10. "Design is where science and art break even." – Robin Mathew
11. "Design is intelligence made visible." – Alina Wheeler
12. "A room should never allow the eye to settle in one place. It should smile at you and create fantasy." – Juan Montoya
13. "To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it." – Albert Hadley
14. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." – Leonardo da Vinci
15. "The details are not the details. They make the design." – Charles Eames
16. "Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness." – Frank Gehry
17. "Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design." – Stephen Gardiner
18. "Design adds value faster than it adds costs." – Joel Spolsky
19. "Design is not for philosophy—it’s for life." – Issey Miyake
20. "Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people." – Thomas J. Watson
21. "Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union." – Frank Lloyd Wright
22. "Luxury is in each detail." – Hubert de Givenchy
23. "Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love." – Nate Berkus
24. "Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design." – Charles Eames
25. "Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable." – Donna Karan
26. "Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is." – Chip Kidd
27. "Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs." – Frank Chimero
28. "If you love something, it will work. That’s the only real rule." – Bunny Williams
29. "Design is not about products. Design is about relationships." – Humantific
30. "Be faithful to your own taste, because nothing you really like is ever out of style." – Billy Baldwin
31. "Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity—not a threat." – Steve Jobs
32. "Design should never say, 'Look at me.' It should always say, 'Look at this.'" – David Craib
33. "The ultimate inspiration is the deadline." – Nolan Bushnell
34. "Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future." – Paola Antonelli
35. "Designers don’t actually solve problems. They work through them." – Marty Neumeier
36. "The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out." – Albert Hadley
37. "All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer." – William Morris
38. "Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful." – Dieter Rams
39. "Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated." – Paul Rand
40. "Design is the intermediary between information and understanding." – Hans Hoffman
41. "Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future." – Robert L. Peters
42. "Design is a journey of discovery." – Unknown
43. "Trendy is the last stage before tacky." – Karl Lagerfeld
44. "The best way to design is to be connected with your intuition." – Bijoy Jain
45. "Fashion changes, but style endures." – Coco Chanel
46. "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
47. "Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up." – Tate Linden
48. "Design is like a mom, nobody notices when she’s around, but everybody misses her when she’s not." – Santiago Borray
49. "A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense." – Bruno Munari
50. "Design is the silent ambassador of your brand." – Paul Rand
51. "Design is the application of intent – the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident." – Robert L. Peters
52. "The real beauty of a room is not just in how it looks, but in how it feels." – Unknown
53. "You have to be interested in culture to design for it." – Hiroshi Fujiwara
54. "A room is not a room without natural light." – Louis Kahn
55. "Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service." – Steve Jobs
56. "I don’t design clothes, I design dreams." – Ralph Lauren
57. "Good design is good business." – Thomas J. Watson
58. "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well." – Virginia Woolf
59. "A room should never be all one thing; you need the mix of the old and new, the rough and soft, to keep it interesting." – Nate Berkus
60. "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." – Steve Jobs
61. "Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order." – Victor Papanek
62. "Good design is as little design as possible." – Dieter Rams
63. "Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response." – April Greiman
64. "The home should be the treasure chest of living." – Le Corbusier
65. "Inspiration comes of working every day." – Charles Baudelaire
66. "When you’re building a room, you’re building character, and character is the strength and wisdom of a home." – Rose Tarlow
67. "A house is much more than a mere shelter—it should lift us emotionally and spiritually." – John Saladino
68. "Design is not a single object or dimension. Design is messy and complex." – Natasha Jen
69. "Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There’s more to life than decorating." – Albert Hadley
70. "Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking." – Ellen Lupton
71. "To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master." – Milton Glaser
72. "Design is a balance between form and function – it takes two." – Seesaw
73. "Design should be user-centric." – Donald A. Norman
74. "Design is the art of gradually applying constraints until only one solution remains." – Unknown
75. "The best design is a good plan." – Isaac Mizrahi
76. "The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be." – Paula Scher
77. "Good design is clear thinking made visual." – Edward Tufte
78. "Design is a tool to help people." – Bill Moggridge
79. "Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition." – Freeman Thomas
80. "Every great design begins with an even better story." – Lorinda Mamo
81. "Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is." – Chip Kidd
82. "Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up." – Tate Linden
83. "Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process." – Paul Rand
84. "Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy." – Erik Adigard
85. "Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It’s a few tricks to the brain." – Neville Brody
86. "Design is about making things good (and then better) and right (and fantastic) for the people who use and encounter them." – Matt Beale
87. "Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated." – Paul Rand
88. "Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs." – Frank Chimero
89. "Designing a product is designing a relationship." – Steve Rogers
90. "Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood." – Fabien Barral
91. "Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated." – Paul Rand
92. "Good design is honest." – Dieter Rams
93. "Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art and craft; intuition and reason; concept and detail; playfulness and formality; client and designer; designer and printer; and printer and public." – Valerie Pettis
94. "Design is a formal response to a strategic question." – Mariona Lopez
95. "The client may be the king, but he’s not the art director." – Von R. Glitschka
96. "The function of design is letting design function." – Micha Commeren
97. "Design is the application of intent – the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident." – Robert L. Peters
98. "Everything is designed. Few things are designed well." – Brian Reed
99. "People ignore design that ignores people." – Frank Chimero
100. "Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs." – Frank Chimero

These quotes capture the essence and philosophy behind interior design, offering insights and inspiration from some of the most renowned designers and thinkers in the field.

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