Sottsass Quotes

#1. We saw what we saw. Whether it was a place or a vision in our mind, it doesn't matter. We must act upon what we experienced, so to that end, yes, it was real.' 'Now?

Raymond E. Feist

#2. 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

#3. The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.

Shahin Najafi

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

Ettore Sottsass

#5. Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks
Our ready minds to fellowship divine,
A fellowship with essence; till we shine,
Full alchemiz'd, and free of space. Behold
The clear religion of heaven!

John Keats

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on my own. I don't particularly like it, but I don't see a way 'round it.

Eric Clapton

#9. 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

#10. There aren't any good guys, and there aren't any bad guys. There's just us. People. Doing our best to get by

Neil Gaiman

#11. The amazing ones are, those that don't know it!

Anthony Liccione

#12. 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

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

Ettore Sottsass

#14. Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.

Brian Tracy

#15. 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

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

Ettore Sottsass

#17. Do not waste my words on tired minds.
I can only talk to those who are thirsty
for the sea.

Rumi

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

Ettore Sottsass

#19. When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

John Gray

#20. Creativity and the world of the imagination - the beauty of what we see as a child and the kind of play that we experience as a child - can be a way for us to survive tough times.

Diane Paulus

#21. As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

Ettore Sottsass

#23. just programmed into the bomb's guidance system. "Hey!" the copilot told the Delta operator. "We don't

Eric Blehm

#24. The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

Viktor E. Frankl

#25. Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that.

V.C. Andrews

#26. Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

Billie Jean King