Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

The recognition and understanding of the need was the primary condition of the creative act. When people feel they had to express themselves for originality for its own sake, that tends not to be creativity. Only when you get into the problem and the problem becomes clear, can creativity take over.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

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