Function Quotes

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

Steve Jobs

“Form ever follows function.”

Louis Sullivan

“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well; then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.”

John Ruskin

“Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

“Houses are built to live in and not to look on.”

Francis Bacon

“I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.”

I. M. Pei

“Nothing that is not practical can be beautiful.”

Otto Wagner

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

Steve Jobs

“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.”

Steve Jobs

“Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.”

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

“What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts.”

Ray Eames

“A house is a machine for living in.”

Le Corbusier

“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.”