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Massimo Vignelli Quotes

Total quotes: 5
“The essence is what is left when there’s nothing else that you can throw away.”
— Massimo Vignelli, How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer
Tagged: Design Quotes, Graphic Design
“Do not deny history. American culture is based on novelty, on difference; Europeans are not interested in new ways as much as they are interested in refining a concept which has existed through the centuries. It is a continuing evolution, not a revolution. ”
— Massimo Vignelli, Lella and Massimo Vignelli: Two Lives, One Vision
Tagged: America, Conservation, Evolution, History
“One Life is Too Short for Doing Everything”
— Massimo Vignelli
Tagged: Life, short, Time, Choices, opportunities
“New York is a peninsula and Manhattan is an island and it doesn't belong to America — it is a continent by itself in a sense. That is why we are comfortable in New York; it is very European in one sense and very American in another and so it feels comfortable for an ex-patriot. But when you are in Chicago, you really come to America. You come to the prairie, you come to great dimensions, vast horizons.”
— Massimo Vignelli, Lella and Massimo Vignelli: Two Lives, One Vision
Tagged: Cities, New York City
“Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It's a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance. It is the persistent search for purity, the search for serenity, for silence as a presence, for the thickness of spaces, for space as immensity. Minimalism is beyond time - ­it is timelessness, it is noble and simple materials, it is the stillness of perfection. It has to be the being itself, uncovered by useless crusts, not naked but completely defined by itself, by its being.”
— Massimo Vignelli, claudiosilvestrin.eu
Tagged: Against Decoration, Minimalism
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