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, b…"

"If there is a designer whose name is synonymous with industrial design it is 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."

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

"What Charles and Ray Eames are to furniture design, Raymond Loewy is to industrial design -- the modern master"

"Design is too important to be left to designers."

"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 …"

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