Mario Bellini famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

â€¦words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anewâ€¦.
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
I am but an architectural composer.
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

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