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Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a German architect and designer. He was important to the modernist movement, and several of the movement's leading names (including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius) worked for him in earlier stages of their careers.

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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.

Easiest, Quoting, Thinking, White, Wise, Witty

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.

Character, Creating, Design, Object, Technologies, Technology

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.

Architecture, Expression, Giving, Intellectual, Mean

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.

Appearance, External, Look, Looks, Specialist, Thinking

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

Gestures, Journey, Shape, Shapes, Way

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