“I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.” ChildrenLittlesBeautifulSeeingOfficeMoodEnergeticSkeletonsGood MoodStockholmUltrasounds Author:Stellan Skarsgard
“I have a very beautiful room in my house... It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and... I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom.” ThinkingFeelsWritingEndsBeautifulThreeHouseSidesPerfectRoomsNiceOfficeGlassesExposedBedroomDistractedVery NiceVery BeautifulThree Sides Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?” WayGivingWisdomAmericaBeautifulCulturePoliticsQualityEconomyBuildingSourceHigherCivilizationOfficeArchitectureStreamsLiberalismWhy NotBeautiful Life Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.” WorldFunnyBeautifulWonderfulBuildingOfficeParksPublishingCrankyOld Buildings Author:Jim Harrison
“There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.” WellsHas BeensCharacterBeautifulOfficeOrdinaryFilling Book:The New Life Source: The New Life
“Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.” MenImportantHomeLightBeautifulHoursWorkAttentionHalfEnvironmentAirMinesRevolutionCivilizationOfficeWorshipMachinesReactionsDawnShopsWakingFactoriesDevotedWorkplaceAdequateSurroundingsUglinessEvokeBreedingInfancyTranquillityElevatingWarehouseSqualorPlaces Of WorshipMachine Shop Author:B. C. Forbes