Naoto Fukasawa famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

MinÂiÂmalÂism is about creÂatÂing comÂplete harÂmony and not about making simple.
-- Naoto Fukasawa

#Simple #Isms
We designers have been working to stimulate people's souls and minds.
-- Naoto Fukasawa

#People #Soul #Mind
Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.
-- Naoto Fukasawa

#Design #Experience #Needs
Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.
-- Naoto Fukasawa

#Creativity #Design #Environment
People shouldn't really have to think about an object when they are using it. Not having to think about it makes the relationship between a person and an object run more smoothly.
-- Naoto Fukasawa

#Running #Thinking #People
I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.
-- Naoto Fukasawa

#Real #Feelings #Skins
When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only about what is there, the audience is drawn into the poet's world. Their imagination is stimulated, and a silent connection is established. I believe this is where the most important aspect of the Japanese sense of beauty lies...
-- Naoto Fukasawa

#Lying #Believe #Writing
Minimalism is about creating complete harmony and not about making simple.
-- Naoto Fukasawa

#Inspirational #Simple #Creating
The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.
-- Naoto Fukasawa

#Design #Behavior #Best Design

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.
A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.
Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
All -isms end up in schisms.
Bin Laden-ism, I don't think, is dead yet. And I think there's a long way to go before we can legitimately say that, you know, it is no longer in our midst.
I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

Naoto Fukasawa famous quotes

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