Feeling stuck on designing? Are you an entrepreneur or pursuing a career that requires a creative spark? Having a design sense will boost your creativity. Here are some quotes for inspiration.

1.Derived Meaning

Paul Rand was an American graphic designer who specialized in corporate logos. He believed that logos needed to have a strong backbone, and that the logo itself could not be the backbone.

2.Loving Design

Adam Judge is the author of two design books, ‘The Little Black Book of Design’ and ‘The Little Blue Book of Design’. He points out the fact that we shouldn’t get too attached to anything in the art world, because it is ever changing and we shouldn’t rely on a crutch.

3.Creativity Is Fun

Mary Lou Cook was an actress, singer, and dancer. This quote on creativity leaves no stones unturned, and encourages everyone to live life to the fullest in everything we do..

4.Focus Your Imagination

Mark Twain was an American author. This quote relies on the importance of imagination, and how if we aren’t imaginative we won’t see wonderful ideas.

5.Design Is Storytelling

Lorinda Mamo is a designer and creative director. Her quote brings to attention that design relies on a story, and without a great story, you can’t have great design.

6.Design Is Visual

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and filmmaker. This quote relays the fact that design is a thought process, and the final thoughts are seen in the final design.

7.Create Beauty

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and filmmaker. His quote about creating beautiful things for himself is inspiring. He doesn’t care if anyone else needs it, he’s creating it for him.

8.Perfect Design

Antoine de Saint-Exupery was a French writer and poet. His quote shows that design is a complicated process, and that we often over embellish things.

9.Don’t Fear Failure

Dr. Edwin Land was a physicist, scientist, and inventor (he invented the Polaroid camera). His quote about creativity serves as a comfort, and lets us know it’s okay to fail. In order to be creative, we will fail, but we can’t fear it otherwise it will hinder us.

10.Content > Design

Jeffrey Zeldman is a designer, author, and podcaster. His quote gives true meaning to design, and sets it apart from what people uneducated on the subject view it to be. Design needs substance, decor does not.

11.Design Is In Everything

Erik Adigard is a designer and media based artist. His quote takes on a deeper investigation into design, and shows how far it really goes..

12.Design Is Needed

Charles Eames was an American designer who worked with architecture and furniture. This quote proves that design is a solution for a problem.

13.Design Is Complicated

Paul Rand was an American designer most well known for his corporate logos. Here he is talking about design as a construct, how it in itself is simple, but the act and execution is complicated.

14.Design Is Advertising

Paul Rand was an American graphic designer most well known for his logos. This quote is a declaration that while design is art, it serves an economical purpose.

15.The Bad Comes Before The Good

Paula Scher is an American graphic designer, painter, and educator. Her quote suggests that mistakes are a part of living. You need to make them in order to change.

16.Don’t Underestimate Your Abilities

Paula Scher is an American graphic designer, painter, and educator. She suggests that in order to learn and grow, you should take on challenges you don’t believe yourself to be prepared for.

17.Are You Ever Done?

Neville Brody is a London born graphic designer. His quote suggests that when we design digitally, it never feels quite complete.

18.Create Beauty

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and filmmaker. His quote about creating beautiful things for himself is inspiring. He doesn’t care if anyone else needs it, he’s creating it for him.

19.Simplicity & Clarity

Lindon Leader is a graphic designer, and the creator of the award-winning FedEx logo. This quote is informative, and tells you two of the most important things in design.

20.Continue The Story

Tate Linden is an American branding and strategy expert. His quote on design shows that successful design doesn’t have to come to an end, it can continue on and continue being informative.

21.Don’t Try To Save Bad Content

Edward R. Tufte is a statistician, artist, and professor at Yale University. This quote informs us that if your story isn’t great, no amount of design can save it.

22.Intrigue Viewers

Alexander Isley is a brand strategist and identity designer. His quote tells us that design’s goal should be not only to educate, but to intrigue viewers and make them curious.

23.Design Makes Ideas Tangible

Debbie Millman is a writer, artist, brand consultant, and radio show host. Her quote puts design on a pedestal, right where it should be. Designers are incredibly important parts of our lives, and make the world a better place.

24.Design Is An Act

Ellen Lupton is a designer, writer, curator, and educator. Her quote about design brings to light that design isn’t always about creating something on the page, but knowing when to not create it. is a designer, writer, curator, and educator. Her quote about design brings to light that design isn’t always about creating something on the page, but knowing when to not create it.

25.Designers Aren’t Understood

Fabien Barral is a graphic designer specializing in innovative and unique ideas. He paints the designer as a complex creature, and one that most people can’t quite pin down – just like most creatives.

26.Don’t Rely On Images

Germano Facetti was an Italian graphic designer who worked at Penguin Books. His quote on imagery shows that designers cannot rely on imagery alone, that it has to be part of something bigger to truly be successful.

27.Visible Function

Jennifer Morla is president and creative director of Morla Design in San Francisco. Her opinion on design is that it makes content tangible, and clearly depicts something meaningful.

28.Design Adds Value

Joel Spolsky is a web programmer, writer, and the creator of Trello. His take on design is that when it’s done well, products become more valuable, but don’t necessarily have to be more expensive.

29.Marketing Needs Design, & Vice Versa

Von Glitschka is an illustrative designer. His quote gives purpose to both marketing and design, showing that they both need each other to be valuable.

30.Design Tricks The Brain

Neville Brody is a London born graphic designer. His opinion on design is that it is almost like an optical illusion, and your brain must work to figure it out.

31.Don’t Aim For Simplicity

Paul Rand was an American designer most well known for his corporate logos. He believed that you shouldn’t go into something with the aim of only keeping it simple. It should be simple when it needs to be, and it will arrive at that point when the idea is sound.

32.Design With A Plan

Charles Eames was an American designer working in architecture and furniture. His quote suggests that design is the solution for a problem, and is carefully thought out to achieve a goal.

33.Have A Concept

Petrula Vontrikis is a designer, author, and educator in Los Angeles. Her quote is a play on another popular adage, yet takes on the idea that good design comes from a concept. It isn’t just something to look at and admire.

34.Style Is Silent Communication

Rachel Zoe is a stylist, designer, and editor. She presents that you can represent who you are by simply having your own style – whether it be clothing or your design style.

35.Great Things Are Made Of Small Things

Vincent Van Gogh is an incredibly famous Post-Impressionist painter. His quote about great things can be applied to design, meaning that small things help create great design. It’s all in the details.

36.Good Design Is Invisible

John D. Berry is an editor and typographer. He shows here that bad design is noticed, yet good design remains unnoticed.

37.Design Solves Art’s Problems

Karl Gerstner is a prominent Swiss graphic designer. He juxtaposes design and art, and says that design is the solution to art.

38.Design With Intent

Robert L. Peters is a designer actively involved in design education. His take on design is that it must be done with purpose, and should never just happen willy nilly. There should always be a plan.

39.Design Is Optimized Art

Shimon Shmueli is a creative with experience in engineering, marketing, and design. This quote shows that while art doesn’t always serve a specific purpose, design does. Design solves problems, but can look like a beautiful piece of art while doing it.

40.Design Creates Relationships

Steve Rogers is an illustrative graphic designer. His quote focuses on the need for there to be a relationship between a product and the user.

41.Create Meaningful Design

John Maeda is a Japanese-American designer, computer scientist, and author. His take on simplicity is that only meaningful parts should be included in your design. Trim it down as much as possible and make it purely informative.

42.Reach For The Sky

M.C. Escher is a world famous graphic artist. His wise quote encourages you to push the limits and go for the extremes. You won’t be able to break new grounds if you only dip your toes in the pool.

43.Living Life Through Design

Alan Fletcher was the father of British graphic design. His quote sums up this article nicely, and tells us that design is a way of living. It isn’t a simple action, but truly a part of who we are as human beings.

44.Design Well

Brian Reed is a front-end developer, musician, and self declared ‘ghostbuster’. This quote revels in the fact that everything we interact with is designed, but few things are designed properly and with thought.

45.Smoke & Mirrors

This quote shows that bad design is misleading, and obscures the truth, while good design is reflective and truthful.

46.Cultural Values

Robert L. Peters is a designer actively involved in design education. This quote puts the notion into context that design inadvertently shapes the future.

47.Thoughtful Design

Ralph Caplan is a design consultant, writer, and public speaker. His quote shows that design can be a daunting thing, but it must be taken seriously, and if it isn’t it will be a real detriment to society.

48.Informational Understanding

Hans Hofmann was a teacher and painter, as well as one of the most important postwar American artists. His quote paints design as the mediator, as it helps relay information to bring understanding to the masses.

49.Design Works

Steve Jobs was an American businessman most famous for his co-founding of Apple. This quote proves that design isn’t just a tactile or aesthetic thing, but actually functional.

50.There Is Always Design

Adam Judge is the author of two design books, ‘The Little Black Book of Design’ and ‘The Little Blue Book of Design’. This quote drives the notion home that everything is designed. No matter if it is good or bad, someone somewhere took the time to make it.

51.Transparent Design

Joe Sparano is an American graphic designer and teacher. This quote instills the idea that great design can often go unnoticed or be taken for granted because it is so effective.

52.Simple Elegance

This quote shows how simplicity, on of the most important aspects of design, can be viewed as elegant if it is used in just the right way.

53.Visible Intelligence

Alina Wheeler is in the business of strategic imagination and brand identity. Her quote shows that design is simply a way of physically showing intelligence. Intelligence becomes something you can touch and see when you pair it with design.

54.The Question Forms The Answer

Piet Hein was a Danish architect, mathematician, and poet. His quote shows that design is all about problem solving, and that the problem must be looked at closely and fully understood before an answer can be reached.

55.Nail the Basics

Chris Anderson’s quote shows the importance of a solid base idea. If you don’t start with a strong idea, no amount of embellishments will make it a good one.

I hope those quotes are inspiring you for making design better. Please comment the number of your favorite quotes.