Yves Behar Quotes

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'

Yves Behar

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• It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.

  

  Banks
  • Up
  • Important
  • Think

• If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Too Much

• My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Different
  • Family
  • Beautiful

• To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Important
  • Art

• Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Like
  • Design
  • Act

• I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Important
  • Think
  • Perspective

• I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Important
  • Person
  • Luck

• Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Sex

• It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Important
  • Children
  • You

• I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
  • Important
  • Game

• I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.

  

  Iman
  • Time
  • Important
  • Age

• I don't believe that competitions are important.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Believe
  • Important

• I very rarely wear suits, and only make one or two per season, so it's about wanting exceptional clothes that don't feel stiff. Fabric and garment washing are a big part of my design process for that reason. Everything needs to feel lived-in and comfortable.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Design
  • Process
  • Clothes

• Improving the opportunities across the board is extremely important to sustain the legitimacy of wealth. If a whole horde of people, whole sections of society don't feel they have the opportunities, then the focus is going to be on those who have it and who have made it and say that is illegitimate.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Important
  • Society

• One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.

  

  Ken Cuccinelli
  • Important

• If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

  

  Jefferson Han
  • Design

• Most of my work has been independent movies outside the mainstream system.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • Work
  • Independent

• Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'

  

  Yves Behar
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Design