Ettore Quotes

#1. Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs.

Kelly Wearstler

#2. I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

Ettore Sottsass

#3. ...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj.
And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter will do his best to save her.

Ettore Scola

#4. I build my cars to go, not to stop.

Ettore Bugatti

#5. Mr. Bentley - He builds fast trucks.

Ettore Bugatti

#6. Some lesser husbands built a latrine on the hillside.

V.S. Naipaul

#7. A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

Ettore Sottsass

#8. Junior based all of his decisions on his dreams and visions, which created a lot of problems.

Sherman Alexie

#9. Something is better than nothing

Ettore Grillo

#10. Be patient, calm, compassionate. Know that existence is fleeting.

Ettore Sottsass

#11. People with SKILLS work for people with IDEAS. Be an idea person.

Jim Cockrum

#12. My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

Ettore Sottsass

#13. When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It's not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

Ettore Sottsass

#14. Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?

Arthur Carhart

#15. The USPS is the only place in the world where you will find a black guy, a white guy, and a hispanic guy playing Filipino poker! And we love it that way!

Rhoda D'Ettore

#16. Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

Dorothea Dix

#17. Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive.

Ettore Bugatti

#18. I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

Ettore Sottsass

#19. If the ending is not happy, the story is not finished.

J.P. Leck

#20. Just because you're grown up and then some doesn't mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

Victoria Moran

#21. Harry lit up, drew the smoke deep into his lungs and tried to imagine the blood vessels in the wall of the lung greedily absorbing the nicotine. Life was becoming shorter and the thought that he would never stop smoking filled him with a strange satisfaction.

Jo Nesbo

#22. I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.

Caroline Leavitt

#23. There is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances.

Ettore Sottsass

#24. There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#25. If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

Ettore Sottsass

#26. You loved her. I would feel the same if someone wanted to erase Scarlet's identity and give it to Levana's army.

Marissa Meyer

#27. Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

Ettore Sottsass

#28. How will machines know what we value if we don't know ourselves?

John C. Havens

#29. I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

Sheryl Crow

#30. When I began designing machines I also began to think that these objects, which sit next to each other and around people, can influence not only physical conditions but also emotions. They can touch the nerves, the blood, the muscles, the eyes and the moods of people.

Ettore Sottsass

#31. Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.

Ettore Messina