Design Quote by Ettore Sottsass

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every…

— Christian de Portzamparc

There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a…

— Lawrence Weiner

The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.

— Joseph Campbell

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.

— Karim Rashid

It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat, be significant…

— Jacques Maritain

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

— Zaha Hadid

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a…

— Kenzo Tange

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine…

— Antony Gormley

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

— Bill Russell

“True symbolism depends on the fact that things, which may differ from one another in time, space, material nature, and many other limitative characteristics,…

— Titus Burckhardt

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

— Ezra Pound