There are many ways to get inspired these days. For designers, looking through design pieces around the internet help them grow their ideas for current or future projects. Though sometimes when you’re down, it doesn’t matter if you are designers or not some quotes or phrase can inspire you to move forward and think creatively.

In this article, we have selected 75+ various design quotes. Some you will recognize coming from the great artist like Pablo Picasso. Others are inspiring quotes created by designers across the world based on their mindset.

Picasso Type – Quote by Picasso

Design's fundamental role is problem solver.

- Fast Company, 2005

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

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

- Steve Jobs, 2003

Pablo Picasso

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

- Red Adair

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

- Thomas Edison

…designers can make life more bearable by producing stuff that touches its audience rather than fucks them in the head.

- Jon Wozencraft

Dead Serious

Good design is good business.

- Thomas J. Watson Jr.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

- Victor Papanek

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it.

- Brenda Laurel

Creativity

You are what you are seen to be.

- Erik Spiekermann

To say that something is designed means it has intentions that go beyond its function. Otherwise it's just planning.

- Ayse Birsel

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

Sweet In The Sour

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

- David Lewis

Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

- Orson Welles

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

- Pablo Picasso

Excellence – Aristotle

Design is as much a matter of finding problems as it is solving them.

- Bryan Lawson

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

- Judy Garland

The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

- Tom Waits

Person You Are

Good art inspires; Good design motivates.

- Otl Aicher

Color is a creative element, not a trimming.

- Piet Zwart

Sometimes you can draw more inspiration from the people who don’t believe in you, then from the ones who do.

- William Childs

You Learn Something New Everyday

Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.

- William Allin

Design is where science and art break even.

- Robin Mathew

I’m convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.

- Carrie Philips

Typography

The definition of an expert is someone who knows what not to do.

- Charles Willson

Practice safe design: Use a concept.

- Petrula Vrontikis

Just because something looks good doesn’t mean it’s useful. And just because something is useful does not make it beautiful.

- Joshua Brewer

Never Tell Me

Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.

- Mieke Gerritzen

When you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.

- Jared M. Spool

If you’re more susceptible to interruption, you do more out of the box thinking.

- Don Norman

Life Is…

By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback.

- Kent Beck

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

- Stefan Sagmeister

I don’t think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.

- Johanna Drucker

The Only Thing Worse

Design is the contrast of the core of limitations therefore there are no boundaries. It is simply an interpretation of creativity.

- Jenaiha Woods

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

- Jeffrey Zeldman

Simplicity does not mean want or poverty. It does not mean the absence of any decor, or absolute nudity. It only means that the decor should belong intimately to the design proper, and that anything foreign to it should be taken away.

- Paul Jacques Grillo

Fight With Tools

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work & an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

- Frank Llyod Wright

Design is creativity with strategy.

- Rob Curedale

There ain’t no rules around here. We’re trying to accomplish something.

- Thomas Edison

BeAmazing

Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.

- Tate Linden

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

- Emil Ruder

Wisdom is to knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

- David Starr

Compassion Will Cure…

Designers have a dual duty; contractually to their clients and morally to the later users and recipients of their work.

- Hans Hger

Imitation may be the “sincerest form of plagiarism,” but it is also the mark of an inferior person.

- David Ogilvy

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

- Paul Klee

Rising Sun

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

-  Brian Yerkes

The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

- John Gruber

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

- Leonardo da Vinci

Quotation 6

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

- Pearl S. Buck

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

- Chris Bangle

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

- Neil Gaiman

Mr.Mandela Said…

Designing a product is designing a relationship.

- Steve Rogers

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

- Milton Glaser

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

- Pablo Picasso

Reminders

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

- Ralph Lauren

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

- Charles Eames

Worth Having

We hope you can be inspired and motivated by the quotes in this post. Join and tell us which is your favorite one or if you have your own quotes, feel free to write it down on the comments. In the meantime here’s mine.

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

- Ari Suardiyanti

Sitting in a chair working for most of the day is never healthy. If you're a freelancer, it means you're pretty much glued to your chair since there is no getting up and going over to a colleague's desk to talk about a project, walk to a meeting, elevator or across the street for lunch.

Ignoring the fact that gluing your behind to your work place most often than not, piles on the pounds but also leads to something far more unhealthy – inactivity.

If you have recurring back aches, stiff neck and creaking joints then your body needs to start moving.

Here are a few simple stretching exercises which won't reduce your weight, but will keep your body active and blood circulating!

Important note: All these stretching exercises should be done regularly and moderately in sets of 5.

Eyes

This is the simplest so we’ll start with the eyes. Every 20 mins, close your eyes for a few seconds, open them and then roll them around slowly. Without moving your neck, look to your right, up, left and down. Do so a few times before repeating the same exercise from your left.

Neck

You've been sitting at your desk working all day. You can feel the stiffness in your neck from keeping it in one position for so long. To work the stiffness out:

a. Slowly bend your head toward your chest till you feel the back of your neck stretching. Hold for a few seconds and then straighten your head back up.

b. Now gently move your neck back to look up at the ceiling till you feel the front of your neck stretching. Hold position for a few seconds before straightening your neck once again

c. Turn your head to your left and look over your shoulder till you feel the right side of your neck stretching. Hold for a few seconds, get your head back in original position and do the same for your right side.

d. Rotate your neck from left to right and vice versa to loosen up your neck muscles.

Shoulders

Shoulders are simple. All you have to do is roll them. Start will small rolls and then expand them gradually. Go clockwise and then anti clockwise.

Ever seen how newborns stretch themselves while yawning after waking up from a nap? They throw up their arms stretch them all the way up. Do the same while sitting in your chair and feel your shoulders and arms lose some of their soreness. Yawning is optional.

Back

If you're like me, you probably have a cushion placed in your chair for added back support. Since we're all hunched over our computers all day, our back is usually the first to suffer.

To give some relief to your aching back:

a. place your feet flat on the ground.

b. bring your neck, upper and lower back down till your chest is touching your thighs.

c. move your hands down till they're touching the ground.

d. Hold position for 10 seconds and slowly move back to your sitting position.

Another simple way to stretch is to:

a. stand up with your feet shoulder width apart. Keep your arms at your sides

b. Bend down slowly to your right side with your right hand sliding down your thigh.

c. Reach your left arm over your head and hold till you feel your left side stretching.

d. Do the same for the other side

For lower back:

a. Place your feet flat on the floor and twist your torso to your right keeping your back straight.

b. Use your hands to hold on to the right side of the chair to help you stretch further. It will seem like you're looking over your shoulder or behind you without moving your hips or legs.

c. Do the same for your left side and feel the tension lessen from your lower back.

Hands and arms

Because we're at our computer all day, our hands, wrists and arms are always poised in the same position. Close your hand in a fist and rotate your wrist ten times. First clockwise and then anti clockwise.

To stretch your fingers:

a. Hold your left hand open and extend your fingers back one by one with your right hand.

b. Then hold all your fingers together and extend them back together at the same time.

To stretch your arms, simply recall your physical training class from school. Remember how we had to holds our arms out (Titanic pose), then in front of us and then up in the air? That's how you're going to stretch your arms. Stretch your arms as far as you can while keeping your feet planted firmly on the floor.

Legs

You can't stretch your legs too much while sitting down. For this you will invariably have to get up. If you're sitting, lift both legs in the air and stretch them forward with your ankles pointing forward too. Keep your leg stretched and move your ankle back till you feel the back of your calve stretching.

To stretch your legs while standing up:

a. Stand behind your chair and place your left hand on the back rest of your chair for support

b. Lift your right leg behind you towards your hip

c. Hold your leg with your right hand to stretch it. Hold for 10 seconds and place your leg back on the floor

d. Do the same for the left leg.

Torso

Link your fingers together and stretch your hands up towards the ceiling. Hold the position while you stretch up as much as possible. Then open your arms and slowly bring them back down before doing the torso stretch again.

Loosened those tense muscles yet?

These exercises will help loosen tense muscle and release stress. The golden rule about stretching is that it shouldn't hurt. If it does, you're doing it wrong and must stop immediately.

Make stretching while working a regular part of your work day and you will feel great at the end of the day.