Emilio Pucci Quotes

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

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

The important thing in aeroplanes is that they shall be speedy.

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines.

The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

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

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.

When a car's ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it's a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you're running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too.

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That's pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

All in all, racing with lift and coast is actually harder.

I was originally a minimalist, so that's my foundation.

I don't like a lot of feathers and frills. I like a clean aesthetic, a Calvin Klein aesthetic.

Nowadays you need a strong aero package, a good aerodynamic car, but also mechanically you cannot afford to have poor suspension. It all goes together as a package and you have to have harmony in the car.