"A designer knows he has achieved perfection..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”
“Si quelqu'un veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'il en existe un. (If somebody wants a sheep, that is a proof that one exists.)”
“Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.”
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“One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.”
“As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.”
“Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.”