Edwin Way Teale Quotes

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.

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

It's useful because it's beautiful.

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.

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

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.

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

A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.

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.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

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

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

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

When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.

I think complexity is beautiful.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

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.

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