Quotes About Function

But belief resides within the shadow of doubt. It only functions effectively in direct proportion to the suppression of the doubt that it seeks to override.

Excessive and persistent levels of fear create changes in brain function that then interfere with decision-making processes.

What swells the costs in enterprises carried on in the interlocking centralized systems of society, whether commercial, official, or non-profit institutional, are all the factors of organization, procedure, and motivation that are not directly determined to the function and to the desire to perform it....

When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's form follows function, what they meant was, form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it, because there is no effort to spare for error. Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives.

Walls, windows, roof, verandah–entirely commonplace, mean even–moved her with the austere poetry of their function. Here a man sheltered from and diminished the horror and vulgarity of the world by the simplicity of his arrangements for living in it.

That there is no need for iron to be the same as copper, or copper the same as gold. Each preforms its own exact function as a unique being, and everything would be a symphony of peace

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

One function of art is to de-kitschify kitsch.

If it has a use it isn't art.

Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things.

The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

That must drive you insa— Oh please. What would a brain do if not these sorts of exercises? I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

What would a brain do if not these sorts of exercises? I have no idea how people function without near-constant chaos. I'd lose my mind.