There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
Massimo VignelliThe computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.
Massimo VignelliSo what is design all about? It [exists to] decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world ... to make the world a better place to be. It doesnโt have to be one style. Weโre not talking about style, weโre talking about quality. Style is tangible, quality is intangible. I am talking about giving to everything that surrounds us a level of quality.
Massimo VignelliIf you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the scale of the city to have things like that. You know. So, not only because it's not appropriate, not only because it's offensive to the environment, I mean but among them also because that quantity of that color in the urban scale, is out of scale.
Massimo Vignelli