Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.
The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.
The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.
Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.
Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.
Nobody expects democracy to be efficient--individual freedom was the primary purpose of our founders - but it should function at least a little
Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.
The Shariah has many other functions but also protects the tarqiah; it protects the spiritual path.
Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
You can still function as a living ruin.
To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.
God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose
The function of art is to acquaint the beholder with something he has not known before.
Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.
The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.
The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.
The emphasis that diplomats of all countries in all capitals accord to entertainment is the result of a conspiracy by which function is found in pleasant social in intercourse and controlled inebriation.
While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.
Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.
Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
I've learned how to function in chaos.
