Bruno Munari Quotes & Sayings

When the artist observes nature ... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets. — Bruno Munari

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing. — Bruno Munari

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. — Bruno Munari

To complicate is easy. To simplify is difficult — Bruno Munari

When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn. — Bruno Munari

Progress means simplifying, not complicating — Bruno Munari

An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use. — Bruno Munari

To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify. — Bruno Munari

Creativity: that which wasn't there before, but which can be made simply and completely. — Bruno Munari