Raymond Loewy Quotes

Function alone does not make clothing appealing.

Ugliness does not sell.

The products people like best start with function and wind up with look.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.

You can't underestimate the importance of cover art.

For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.

Function is fundamental to design, of course. If something doesn't work, it's a bad product, and I certainly get frustrated by things that aren't functional. But there has to be more than function. A house has to function, but if that's all it does, you don't love it.

As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself.

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.

I want people to love to sit in my chairs. You gotta want the people to buy it because they love it.

I'm better looking in person.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing.

A figure with curves always offers a lot of interesting angles.

I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

I'm a sucker for packaging!

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

The visual aspect of a dish is so important; the shapes and colors and overall design have to strike the right mood and convey the right idea.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.

I'm into nice clothes and trying to look good.