Tadao Ando Quotes

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

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

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

Beauty is everything.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

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

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

Poetry is not a luxury.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

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

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

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

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

Only ugliness is obscene.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?

Art is significant deformity.

Art matters.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.