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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.
Peter Behrens / Architect
Wise
Thinking
Witty
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Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?
Peter Behrens / Architect
Journey
Gestures
Shapes
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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.
Peter Behrens / Architect
Technology
Character
Creating
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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.
Peter Behrens / Architect
Appearance
Looks
Thinking
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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.
Peter Behrens / Architect
Expression
Giving
Mean
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