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  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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Peter Behrens

  • Born: April 14, 1868
  • Died: February 27, 1940
  • Occupation: Architect