Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

Visual preoccupation with the outward creates a shallow and fickle focus on the 'beauty of form', which was designed by God merely as an enjoyable fringe benefit of the 'beauty of function'.

Form follows function.

Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and the needs of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor weak nature. The most useful place in a house is the lavatory.

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

Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn non-being into utility.