Mario Bellini quotes

“A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.”
-- Mario Bellini

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“Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are.”
-- Mario Bellini

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“I designed a bench in a few moments. But, of course, it took me 25 years to do it.”
-- Mario Bellini

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“…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….”

“Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.”

“There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time”

“Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”

Source : In National Observer 1 July 1963

“I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I am but an architectural composer.”

“Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.”

“Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.”

“The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.”