All art is quite useless.
I don't see music as working.
Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine.
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!
If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.
Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?
Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only be tackled by treating color and form as ultimate identities, freeing them from all descriptive or functional roles.