Wim Wenders Quotes

The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.

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.

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.

Elegance is elimination.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

True simplicity is elegant.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

Simplicity is the final achievement.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

One can do such lovely things with so little. Subjects that are too beautiful end by appearing theatrical.

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

Simplicity is a matter of taste

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

Rooms should be timeless.

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

Don't think too much of style.

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.