Home / Topics / Mean Quotes

Mean Quotes

Browse 29529 quotes about Mean.

Mean Quotes

“What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.”

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.”

People Men Kind Mean Made Soul Language Design Creation Fundamentals Vocabulary Veneer

Author:Steve Jobs

“Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.”

Mean Has Beens Form Purpose Design Products Humorous Obvious Familiar Construction Artificial Pauses Implications

Book:The Two Worlds

Source: The Two Worlds

“The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but instead to justify, promote, or initiate them”

Mean Effort Design Models Research Outcomes Justify Hybrid Initiate Often Can

Book:Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing

Source: Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing

“Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.”

Ifs Want Wells Mean Art Ideas Seems Culture House Design Waste Theatre Museums Bus Swimming Pool Opera Drag Toilets Borrowed Dump Swimming Pool Opera House

Author:Thomas Heatherwick

“There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man”

“I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.”

Mean Ideas Inspiration Opinion Design Personality Taste Creating Crafts Fabric

Author:Olivier Theyskens

“Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.”