I was 3 years old, and we had a very rich neighbor in Berlin who drove a Mercedes sports car. I remember standing behind this car, admiring the trunk, how nicely shaped it was, for an hour. That shape has… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in! — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
It took two years of me telling Canon engineers that a camera is a thing between the human hand and the human eye, so it had to have ergonomics on both sides! They got the message, and we did it, and overnight it was the camera of the world. Everyone - Nikon, Yashica, Sony - all copied Colani. — Luigi Colani Copy Share
The thing is, 75 percent of design today is absolutely outdated. It all has to be redesigned with the materials and knowledge that we… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
Everybody was inspired by the drawings and the wind tunnels and the race cars - but no one wanted to work with me because… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
You see, if you are 30 years ahead of your time, you will always have difficulty speaking with the bosses in the industry. They… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
I learned to ask myself questions like: Why is something made the way it is? Why does a motorcar look like it does? Is it right or wrong? What is an airplane? Why is it shaped like that? Then, later, I became a diver and studied subaquatic life and the streamlining of sharks and manta rays. Any fish is superior… — Luigi Colani Copy Share
If I had been president, I would have come out and declared: "Nothing there, ever! This place stays as it is. We make a… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
It isn't easy for me to have contact with the industry, because it is so outdated. Look at General Motors, look at -Mercedes, look… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
America is very conservative. It is not a very modern country. If you look at the population, they are very serious, very nice, very… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
I consider myself a 3-D philosopher. I am not a designer at all. I studied aerodynamics, I studied philosophy, I studied sculpture. High technology… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
The earth is round, all the heavenly bodies are round; they all move on round or elliptical orbits. This same image of circular globe-shaped… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
Everybody in Germany was for the -German cause. But then, after the war ended, when I heard the first Glenn Miller sound on the… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
