“The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.” ArtEnjoyObjectsProductsSensitive Book:Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy
“The more I have learned about wine ... the more I have realized that it weaves in with human history from its very beginning as few, if any, other products do. Textiles, pottery, bread ... there are other objects of daily use that we can also trace back to the Stone Age. Yet wine alone is charged with sacramental meaning, with healing powers; indeed with a life of its own.” IfsHumansUseAgeHealingObjectsProductsStonesWineBreadI Have LearnedHuman HistoryPotteryStone AgeTextiles Author:Hugh S. Johnson
“In all these products, whether iron bridges, locomotives, automobiles, telescopes, cottages, airport-hangars, funicular railways, skyscrapers, or children's toys, the will towards a new style expresses itself. The similarity of these examples to the new creations in art consists in the same striving for clear, pure form which expresses truth in the objects.” ChildrenArtFormClearStyleExampleCreationObjectsProductsPureStriveBridgesIronToysAirportsAutomobileSimilarityTelescopesCottagesRailwaySkyscraperLocomotives Author:Theo van Doesburg
“The pace of digital innovation is astonishing. It's impossible to imagine life without the web, smartphones, social networks. And yet the consumer products and everyday objects all around us are still essentially dumb.” StillsSocialImagineImpossibleObjectsProductsInnovationEverydayDumbConsumersDigitalPaceAstonishingSocial NetworkSmartphonesEveryday Objects Author:Andy Hobsbawm
“To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.” WholeBigsRoomsBreakIssuesDesignFieldsIdentityObjectsProductsArchitectureScalesRealmsBreaking DownProduct DesignSmall RoomsHolism Author:Greg Lynn
“Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.” ValuesIdentityObjectsProductsInteractionNotable Author:Brian Eno
“My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.” TodayAmericaObjectsProductsBuiltPracticalsStatementsSymbolsHarshProjectionMaterialisticBrash Book:Andy Warhol Source: Andy Warhol
“Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.” PurposeSimpleObjectsProductsConsequencePhilosophicalSimplicityAbsenceDescribingClutterSimplicity In DesignProduct Design Author:Jonathan Ive
“The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.” MindArtObjectsProductsFitInventionCollaborationCanvasGridsHomemade Book:Living by Fiction Source: Living by Fiction