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20 Quotes from Famous Designers: Read this if you’re feeling uninspired

A minimalistic collection of quotes for every designer

Sarah Saccomanno
2 min readNov 21, 2019
Photo by Brandi Redd on Unsplash

Optional mindfulness exercise: at every page break, take one deep breath, inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth.

one.

“It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.” Paula Scher

two.

“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-Exupéry

three.

“Design is not for philosophy. It’s for lifeIssey Miyake

four.

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it worksSteve Jobs

five.

“The alternative to good design is always bad design. There is no such thing as no designAdam Judge

six.

“Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes eleganceJohn Franklin

seven.

Design is so simple. That’s why it’s so complicated” Paul Rand

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Sarah Saccomanno
Sarah Saccomanno

Written by Sarah Saccomanno

UX & UI Designer. Musings about design and life. Twitter: @sarahsaccomanno

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