It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

The most beautiful curve is a rising sales graph.

It's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate.

The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and just as easy to repair. ...It also sells best and looks good.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

Ugliness does not sell.

Good design is not an applied veneer.

With age comes wisdom and with wisdom comes age. I guess I too am growing older.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.

Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.

Pain is my daily routine. As long as I don't go to the hospital, it's nothing for me.

I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.