Ettore Sottsass Quotes

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

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• When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Strong
  • Enough
  • Achieve

• Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Design

• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Small

• I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Should
  • Look

• One child is never enough for a monarch.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Never
  • Child
  • Enough

• When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Time
  • School
  • Design

• 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

• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Rest
  • Design
  • Madness

• No matter how young you are, you're too old for SXSW.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • You
  • Young
  • Old

• It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.

  

  Kate Mara
  • People
  • Love
  • Exciting

• Only the young die good.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Good
  • Die
  • Young

• I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Team
  • Style
  • Design

• I could program the VCR when I was really young.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Young
  • Program
  • VCR

• Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again, independently - the phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution. I call these designs 'good tricks.'

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Good
  • Design
  • Evolution

• All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Business
  • Design

• Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Ideas
  • Enough
  • Process

• You see, when a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Enough
  • See
  • Lucky

• When I heard him, I thought, if he can do that and get away with it, I can do it too. (on Sonny Bono).

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Heard
  • Get Away
  • Sonny Bono

• I think I just want to make and be part of great records, because of what it brings to other people, what it gives back, is so incredible.

  

  Erol Alkan
  • I Think
  • Incredible
  • Great Record

• A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.

  

  William Gurnall
  • God
  • Power
  • Son

• 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
  • Design
  • Enough
  • Should