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“The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.”

May Moments Beautiful Female Function Suits Lunch Format Foolhardy

Author:Lydia Lunch

“It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.”

Art Beautiful Art Is Function

Author:Giannina Braschi

“Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had designed a beautiful machine to reflect his wisdom and power, surely he would not have used a collection of parts generally fashioned for other purposes. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. Thus, they must have evolved from ordinary flowers.”

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.”

Thinking Should Enough Beautiful Space Objects Civilization Function Sculpture

Author:Barbara Chase-Riboud

“These ... tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences, are one of the most beautiful monuments ever erected to science.”

Mean Beautiful Values Differences Function Tables Technique Monument Calculus

Author:Adrien-Marie Legendre