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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.