Quotes from Bruno Munari

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

L'uovo ha una forma perfetta benché sia fatto col culo.

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

When the objects we use every day and the surroundings we live in have become in themselves a work of art, then we shall be able to say that we have achieved a balanced life.

When a lot of money comes along before culture arrives, we get the phenomenon of the gold telephone. And when I say culture I don't mean academic knowledge, I mean information: information about what is happening in the world, about the things that make life interesting.

the vase once had an extremely common use. Most probably it was used for cooking-oil. It was made by a designer of those times, when art and life went hand in hand and there was no such thing as a work of art to look at and just any old thing to use. I

The greatest freedom comes from the greatest strictness.'(Paul Valéry)

When the objects we use every day and the surroundings we live in have become in themselves a work of art, then we shall be able to say that we gave achieved a balanced life.

To understand means to be capable of doing.'(Goethè)

People haven't got time to stop in the street, size a poster up, see what it refers to and then decide whether or not it interests them. Communication must be instant and it must be exact.

Each country excels in some things, and in the rest is just the same as other countries: mediocre.

The stylist works by contrast. After a season of violet, one can predict a season of yellow.

It is certainly quite wrong to read a poem in a hurry, as if it were a telegram.

What is a car, for many people, if not a piece of travelling sculpture?

as long as art stands aside from the problems of life it will only interest a very few people

When one studies something characteristic of a people it is wise to look at its best side, at least if one wants to learn anything. Ugly things are ugly in much the same way the world over. Only the best can teach us, and the best of anything is individual. Each country excels in some things, and in the rest is just the same as other countries: mediocre.

I TAO PI PU TAO': If the idea is there, the brush can spare itself the work. (Ancient rule of Chinese painting.)

And then, above all, teach others how to do it.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.