“Good design is as little as possible. Less, but better, because it concentrates on the essential aspects,and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.”

“I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.”

“There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.”

“Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.”

“Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.”

“When I started at Braun there were difficulties between the designers and engineers, as there are in many companies, but I noticed that the engineers liked to have a brandy, so I'd buy a bottle of ...”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”