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Quotes About Clarity

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.
~ Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.
~ Brodi Ashton, Neverfall
Dead's not good, but at least it's simple.
~ James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.
~ Dieter Rams
Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.
~ Massimo Vignelli
Simplicity, wit, and good typography.
~ Michael Bierut
Never mistake legibility for communication.
~ David Carson
Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.
~ Jon Franklin
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.
~ Jeffrey Veen
Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.
~ Eric Gill
An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.
~ Albert Hadley
The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.
~ Donald A. Norman
Don't bore the public with mysterious designs.
~ Unknown
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
~ Albert Camus
You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.
~ I.M. Pei
Simplicity is the final achievement.
~ Frederic Chopin
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
Design is important because chaos is so hard.
~ Jules Feiffer
Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order
~ Victor Papanek
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
My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.
~ Elie Saab
Think more design less
~ Ellen Lupton