Architecture and design Quote by Bruno Munari

If you analyse the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.

— Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

— Alfred Korzybski

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

— Max Beckmann

Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

— Nathan Goldstein

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

— Klaus Krippendorff

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

— John Dewey

All the basic information should be in the object itself.

— Michael Craig-Martin

“It’s marked as an object,” Wu said. In computer terminology, an “object” was a block of code that could be moved around and used,…

— Michael Crichton

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

— Anonymous

Mathematicians do not deal in objects, but in relations between objects; thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as…

— Henri Poincare

“Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.”

— Idries Shah

Something that you feel will find its own form.

— Jack Kerouac