Web Design Quotes: Wisdom Inside

Why do people like quotes so much? The answer is pretty clear. Web design quotes can precisely and definitively express what we know, recognize, feel, believe, think, accept, imagine, hope, fear, desire, acknowledge, and/or have experienced as a life truth.

Quotes are often easy to remember because they rhyme or are really simplistic. Since our childhood we've heard lots of quotes from our parents, surrounding, social media, etc. Sometimes quotes echo what we know in our hearts and souls to be true. The best thing about quotes is that they can answer the question we have, in a way that we want. They provide us a piece of advice we needed.

People use quotes to show their current life happening. You can never be motivated 365 days straight. Sometimes you are sad, crying, fallen in love or you feel sick and tired. So people tend to use someone's sayings to express their own feelings.

You can never be romantic every time, but still you love to listen your favorite romantic song, anytime you hear it. Almost the same strategy works with the quotes. So let's see what 'wisenheimers' got to say about web design. In this blog post we've gathered web design quotes and sayings dedicated to our sphere of interest.

Grab some wisdom from the quotes below.

“Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill." ― Rem Koolhaas

"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors." ― George Santayana

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.” ― Aza Raskin

"Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department." ― Tom Peters

“Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.” ― Aza Raskin

“Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.” ― Dieter Rams

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” ― Robert H. Schuller

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ” ― Jim Rohn

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." ― Elon Musk

“Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.” ― Frank Chimero

“Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.” ― John Carmack

“Design from the spine and you’ll be fine.” ― Carl Heaton

“To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that’s worth remembering.” ― Thomas Manss

“We aren’t designing photocopies of web pages, we’re designing web pages.” ― Andy Clarke

“A computer without Photoshop is like a dog with no legs. Sure is fun, but you can’t really do anything with it.” ― Benjamin Cavanagh

“Marketing without design is lifeless, and design without marketing is mute.” ― Von R. Glitschka

“Design is creativity with strategy.” ― Rob Curedale

“No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.” ― Salvador Dali

“People ignore design that ignores people.” ― Frank Chimero

“Making good design is easy. It’s polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.” ― Stefan G. Bucher

"My rates are as follow:
$50 per hour.
$75 per hour. If you watch
$100 per hour if you help."

“Design is like a mom, nobody notices when she’s around, but everybody misses her when she’s not.” ― Santiago Borray

“Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower.” ― Michael Langham

“Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration.” ― Aaron Russell

“Design is intelligence made visible.” ― Alina Wheeler

“Maths is easy; design is hard.” ― Jeffrey Veen

“Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.” ― David Carsong

“Work for money, design for love.” ― Issey Miyake

“Writing is designing with words. Designing is writing without them.” ― Robert Hoekman.

“Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.”

Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because the idea wasn't theirs
Frank Chimero

Design is easy. All you need to do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead
Marty Neumier

Every child is an artist. The challenge is to remain an artist after you grow up.
Pablo Picasso

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design
Otl Aicher

Design from the spine and you’ll be fine
Carl Heaton

The client may be the king, but he’s not the art director
Von R. Glitschka

To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that’s worth remembering
Tomas Manss

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures
Ben Schneiderman

We aren’t designing photocopies of web pages, we’re designing web pages
Andy Clarke

A computer without Photoshop is like a dog with no legs. Sure is fun, but you can’t really do anything with it
Benjamin Cavanach

Marketing without design is lifeless, and desing without marketing is mute
Von R. Glitschka

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption
Peter Saville

Design is creativity with strategy
Rob Curedale

No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist
Salvador Dali

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus
David Hockney

People ignore design that ignores people
Frank Chimero

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt… or in front of a piece of a graphic design
Stefan Sagmeister

My rates are as follow:
$50 per hour.
$75 per hour, if you watch.
$100 per hour, if you help.

Good design means never having to say “Click Here.”
Shawn Leslie

Being a graphic designer gets you used to rejection of your brilliance. So it’s good practice for dating.
Heather Phillips

Inspiration the seed. Design the flower
Michael Langham

Design should never say, “Look at me.” It should say, “Look at this.”
David Craib

Design is intelligence made visible
Alina Wheeler

Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood
Fabien Barral

Math is easy; design is hard
Jeffrey Veen

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does
David Carsong

Design’s fundamental role is problem solver.
Fast Company

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs

If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
Red Adair

A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it.
Brenda Laurel

Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.
David Lewis

Color is a creative element, not a trimming.
Piet Zwart

Design is where science and art break even.
Robin Mathew

Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.
Mieke Gerritzen

Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.
Jeffrey Zeldman

Some designers create things to show you what they did. I design things to tell you what I solved.
Brian Yerkes

The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.
Neil Gaiman

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso

I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

You can’t reach the top before you start climbing from the bottom
Ari Suardiyanti