Ivan Chermayeff Quotes

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things.

I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.

I've always liked simplicity.

Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.

Shaker pieces were not to show off. One was not to waste energy to decorate.

I got simple tastes. Don't go in for all that flashy business.

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

Don't think too much of style.

I feel there’s no need to overstate.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.

Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

I've always gone for the more understated look.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

I look pretty nondescript. I don't go out of my way to... I don't express my personality with my clothes, with my car or my, you know, house. I express with my personality; so as far as what I wear - I don't really care about that.

I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell.

I don't go for the flash and panache.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

My own style is one of not much effort.