Stella McCartney Quotes

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.

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

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

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

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

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.

I want to inspire children to be obsessed over jewellery.

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

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

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

Art is all in the details.

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.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Function is fundamental to design, of course. If something doesn't work, it's a bad product, and I certainly get frustrated by things that aren't functional. But there has to be more than function. A house has to function, but if that's all it does, you don't love it.

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.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

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.

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

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.

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.