Peter Behrens quotes:

Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.

Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.