Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.
Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.
Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.
I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.
Cujus region, ejus rligio (Whoever's reign, his religion). . . He who owns the country owns the Church, and he that makes your laws for you has the right to make your religion for you.
there is that wish, in the name of democracy, to level down, because high cultural standards are despised and rejected, and even feared, in our Western Democracies. Don't let anyone else have what I've not got, or can't enjoy! - is the secret theory. A very large number of writers in the British and American popular press profess to be preaching democracy when in fact they are only trying to make envy respectable!
Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.