Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
Why are we here on earth? To create. It's in our nature.
Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.
Never say 'I could have done that,' because you didn't.
Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.
My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch and meaningless paradigms.
I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.
If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they all think their sons are innocent. That's simple psychological denial. The reality is too painful to bear, so you just distort it until it's bearable. We all do that to some extent, and it's a common psychological misjudgment that causes terrible problems.
As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the Surfaces of small Planets than in those of great ones in proportion to their bulk, and small Bodies are agitated much more by electric attraction than great ones; so the smallness of the Rays of Light may contribute very much to the power of the Agent by which they are refracted.
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.