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Paola Antonelli Quotes: Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.
         

Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.


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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.



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While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.



We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.



Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern.

Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern.



Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.



Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.



Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.

Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.



Life is tough; thank God there's design.

Life is tough; thank God there's design.



Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.





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