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Raymond Loewy
(5 Nov 1893 - 14 Jul 1986)
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Science Quotes by Raymond Loewy (6 quotes)
A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.
— Raymond Loewy
As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.
— Raymond Loewy
Good design is not an applied veneer.
— Raymond Loewy
I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.
— Raymond Loewy
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.
— Raymond Loewy
Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.
— Raymond Loewy
See also:
- 5 Nov - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Loewy's birth.