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

Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought. If caustic criticism of religious institutions and practices is irreligious, then Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus were very irreligious men. In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be. — Halford Luccock

You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those three things put together. It's a very potent weapon of mass destruction. — Rose George

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

I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change. — Yves Behar

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

If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff. — Lukas Haas

And you hate me. "For something I didn't do and something you didn't see. Hate — Carlyle Toussaint

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