Quotes About Essence

Now that her spirit had left, I'd thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the weight of the body and not the other way around.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.

Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the 'core aspect of the design'

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go... Yeah, well, of course.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Don't think too much of style.

Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

I'm a minimalist when it comes to design.

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

I have cut away what I call the excess stuff in my life.

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

For me, a good role, and not the length, is important.

To say more, is to say less.