Walead Beshty Quotes

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

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; it's too realistic. When I design, I dream.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they're unique, but because they've been so artfully made that I couldn't imagine doing it better myself.

I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

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.

The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process.

When something is well-crafted, you know it, and the enjoyment comes from experiencing it.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

Music is art, and making watches is art, too.

Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

I just don't know what makes a picture, really - the thing that makes it is something unique, as far as I can understand. Just like one guy can write a sentence and it's beautiful and another one can write it and it's dead. What the difference is, I don't know.

I always try to write the best I can.

I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

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

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

Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.