Oscar Wilde Quotes

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

Design is everything.

It's useful because it's beautiful.

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

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

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.

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

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.

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.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.

You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington