Piet Zwart famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.
-- Piet Zwart

#Design #Letters
Colour is a creative element, not a trimming.
-- Piet Zwart

#Creative #Elements #Trimming
Among the few I have indicated, is there no dynamic man of action, the rebel who will help determine the aspect of the collective expression of tomorrow? Ponder this question and know that to make beautiful creations for the sake of their aesthetic value will have no social significance tomorrow, will be nonsensical self-gratification. Every era contains the conditions for providing a rebel.
-- Piet Zwart

#Beautiful #Men #Self
We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.
-- Piet Zwart

#Photography #Mean #Eye

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.
Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.
When we did 'Dynasty', it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!
The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music
What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

Piet Zwart famous quotes

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