"My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood."

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Source : Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications

Ettore Sottsass

#Exercise Quotes #Design Quotes #Furniture Quotes

“I was, am and always will be a studentâ€¦, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.”
“There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it... What counts is that the paint should really disappear, otherwise it's craft.”
“A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.”
“I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.”
“Here I go, deep type flow, Jacques Cousteau could never get this low.”
“Im known for impressions and family stories.”
“[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!”

Source : William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.93, Belford Bros.
“You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin”

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