Andrew Vachss Quotes

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

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

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.

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

Design is everything.

It's useful because it's beautiful.

I'm just not very interested in decoration.

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

Being a decorator allowed me to see what about people's environments made them happy. And what things they could do to have more light and color and joy in their daily lives.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

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

Ugliness has been allowed too long. It is time to act.

Function alone does not make clothing appealing.

I abhor mere prettiness.

Design is a vital component to the enrichment of our everyday lives. Japan has a very rich history and culture of design, and I feel it is a very important dialogue to open and keep evolving.