Raymond Loewy Quotes

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The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm.

Raymond Loewy
A lot of people are open to new things, as long as they look like the old ones.

Raymond Loewy
I never expected that one could fall so completely in love with a nation and a people. I already knew that very soon I would thrill at everything American, love everything American, perhaps blindly, but fervently and forever. I still remember how thrilled I was at the sight of the flag. After all these years, every time I see the Stars and Stripes in the breeze, I get the same emotional feeling. Aesthetically speaking, it is perfect. One of the outstanding "designs" of all times. It may be that a nation gets the flag it deserves.

Raymond Loewy
I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.

Raymond Loewy
Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.

Raymond Loewy
This book is the story of a young man who came to America to make a living, and simply happened to do so in a profession which he helped to create.

Raymond Loewy
Is it responsible to camouflage one of America's most remarkable machines as a piece of gaudy merchandise? Form, which should be the clean- cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.

Raymond Loewy
No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.

Raymond Loewy