Quotes from Nicholas Fox Weber

Once you had a solid base and sufficient knowledge, and respect for the essential facts and real needs of life, nothing rivaled careful observation and contemplation fired by a passion for the invention of new means for experiencing life.

He was also perpetually developing configurations of straight lines that deceive the viewer in their apparent readability as plastic forms, with walls and openings, only to become something entirely different as we look at them. Physical impossibility in the guise of the plausible was his elixir.

For Josef, the goal of art was to reveal new ways of seeing, "to open eyes.

Bauhaus design at its best demonstrates that the ordinary and the everyday, when addressed with discernment and tastefulness, have a candor and clarity that calm the insides.

That he produced the quintessential Bauhaus object is evidence that the ideals of the school were as they purported to be—capable of transcending all that was European, going beyond what was unique to a single culture, and spreading across the map of the entire world.

Josef Albers devoted his life to extolling the merits of "minimal means for maximum effect.

Self-expression was to be avoided. The essence of the Bauhaus design teaching that helped form Jony Ive was that what mattered in drawing technique and color exploration were the properties of the components and methods, not a personal narrative.

What counted was focus, paring down: the form of the Parthenon as opposed to all the ornament and complexities of wedding-cake architecture.

Plato advocated discipline and perfectionism, the effort to produce quality in small quantity rather than a vast range of what is second-rate.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly