Amor Towles Quotes

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.

I thought last week's game was ugly and this was even uglier.

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

A revolting, fat, beast.

I'd rather have a house that's nice but usable.

There are girls who find the giant beard 'gross' and 'creepy.' I know because they tell me.

There is nothing worse than bright lighting - it isn't flattering and makes the glamorous women want to leave.

It's a horrible name, Coldplay. It doesn't conjure up any positive thoughts.

People want to create a space that feels like them - one that's deeply rooted in their personality. That's important. Your space is an opportunity to tell your story and showcase your experiences. That's why I think every material - down to your faucet - needs to serve a function and feel personal.

I would say most of my style is driven by functionality and comfort.

Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.

I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

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

No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

I was not an attractive child.

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 like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.

It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.

I'm not fit company for man or beast.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.