Peter Behrens quotes

Peter Behrens quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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.”
-- Peter Behrens

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

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

Source : Peter Behrens (2007). “The Law Of Dreams”, p.356, Canongate Books

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“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.”
-- Peter Behrens

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“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.”
-- Peter Behrens

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