A Quote by Oscar Niemeyer

Form follows beauty.

Oscar Niemeyer

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Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian - Architect
December 15, 1907 - December 5, 2012

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."

Oscar Niemeyer

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

Oscar Niemeyer

Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.

Erik Adigard

For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same.

Plato

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

Boris Pasternak

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

Umberto Eco

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.

Jane Smiley

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

Shelby Steele

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.

Emile Chartier

Growth follows knowledge; action follows inspiration; opportunity follows perception; always the spiritual first, then the transformation into the infinite and illimitable possibilities of achievement.

Charles F. Haanel

Form follows function.

Louis Sullivan

Form follows failure.

Henry Petroski

The form follows the function.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.

Carl Magnusson

Form ever follows function.

Louis Sullivan

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