Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

I continue to be drawn to clarity and simplicity. 'Less is more' remains my mantra.

Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.

Simplicity is the final achievement.

Good design means as little design as possible.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Less is more.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

I've always thought that less was a lot more.

It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and what doesn't. In a lot of cases, less is more. In most cases, less is more.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Elegance is elimination.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.

If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.

I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.

So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.

I always think less is more.

I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a better state of creation?'