Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.

Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.

Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life.

White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.

Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.

The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.