Quotes About Purpose

Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions.

Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.

Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?

Design that moves others comes from issues that move you.

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

The ill design is most ill for the designer.

Design always has a purpose.

Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design?

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.

Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.

It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design.

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.