Louis Kahn
Design is not how it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
Matter is energy (Light), whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no Matter.
Albert Einstein
When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.
Sir Jony Ive
The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.
Anish Kapoor
You cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.
Sir Jony Ive
I sense light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent light. What is made by light casts a shadow and the shadow belongs to light.
Louis Kahn
Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better because it concentrates on the essential aspects. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Dieter Rams
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The details are not the details. They make the design.
by Charles Eames
Good design is as little design as possible.
by Dieter Rams
If you analyze the function of an object, it's form often becomes obvious.
by F. A. Porsche
Light is a powerful substance. . . I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space.
by James Turrell
Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.
by Renzo Piano
Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.
by Richard Meier
. . . visual truth lies in the structure of light.
by Richard Kelly
Light belongs to the heart and spirit. Light attracts people, it shows the way, and when we see it in the distance, we follow it.
by Ricardo Legorreta
Light is the first element of design; without it there is no color, form, or texture.
by Thomas E. Farin
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Design is not simply art, it is elegance of function.
by F. A. Porsche