The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.
The world will be saved by beauty.
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
Look at how goddamn ugly the stars are.
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.
Beauty will save the world
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!
I just like to see and put out what I think is beautiful. And put my swag on it, and my style, and how I feel.
Architecture is invention.
The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.
For me, clothing has always been connected to history. That's what draws me in.
I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.