Paola Antonelli Quotes

#1. Be yourself, be in the moment, you're going to be modern - Author: Paola Antonelli

#2. Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus ... We must demand, at least, intention. - Author: Paola Antonelli

#3. I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life. - Author: Paola Antonelli

#4. Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value. - Author: Paola Antonelli

#5. Not all design is for the general good. - Author: Paola Antonelli

#6. While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be. - Author: Paola Antonelli

#7. Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it. - Author: Paola Antonelli

#8. Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They're able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand. - Author: Paola Antonelli

#9. The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists. - Author: Paola Antonelli

#10. Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future. - Author: Paola Antonelli

#11. Life is tough; thank God there's design. - Author: Paola Antonelli

#12. We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two. - Author: Paola Antonelli

#13. I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens. - Author: Paola Antonelli

#14. Elegance in objects is everybody's right, and it shouldn't cost more than ugliness. - Author: Paola Antonelli

#15. Heaven is satisfied curiosity. - Author: Paola Antonelli

#16. Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space. - Author: Paola Antonelli