Stefan Sagmeister Quotes

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it's beautiful.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

I think, ultimately, I am a sensualist and an aesthete.

There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement, some strange kind of suspension. That's where you find the layer in yourself that is duplicated in everyone. And when you get it right, if you can imagine all the hearts beating in one beat, it's like that. It's beautiful.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

I think the best way to invite people into the conversation is to just create something beautiful out of love, and people naturally gravitate towards a new way of looking at fashion.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

At the heart of mankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another. Marriage is designed to meet that need for intimacy and love.

Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.