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Quotes About Minimalism

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
~ Ferdinand Porsche
One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.
~ Dieter Rams
Simplicity, wit, and good typography.
~ Michael Bierut
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
~ Paul Rand
Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.
~ Jon Franklin
No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
~ Alan Cooper
The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.
~ Donald A. Norman
Simplicity is the final achievement.
~ Frederic Chopin
Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.
~ Jonathan Ive
The best design is the simplest one that works.
~ Albert Einstein
Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the 'core aspect of the design'
~ Achille Castiglioni
Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
~ Elsie de Wolfe
Think more design less
~ Ellen Lupton
Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.
~ Edward Tufte
Design does not really interest me
~ Philippe Starck
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
~ Alan Cooper
I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.
~ Annie Leibovitz
True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go... Yeah, well, of course.
~ Jonathan Ive
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
~ Bruce Lee
Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.
~ Andree Putman
I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.
~ Maurizio Cattelan
Don't think too much of style.
~ William Morris
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.
~ Christoph Niemann
With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch
~ Marc Newson