Quotes About Creativity

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry.

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

Design is thinking made visual.

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

To create, one must first question everything.

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible.

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Space is the breath of art.

To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.