There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed.

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.

I started very early. I started to be interested in design when I was 14 years old, basically, and before I was just like anybody else, any other kid. I was playing with everything. I loved to do stage sets by cutting a piece of board and making a cut in three sides, flipping it down, making the stage.

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.