Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

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

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

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.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

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

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

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.

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

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

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

The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.

Every form correctly seen is beautiful

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

Form follows beauty.

I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized.

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

The Coke bottle is a masterpiece of scientific, functional planning. In simpler terms, I would describe the bottle as well thought out, logical, sparing of material and pleasant to look at.

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

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