Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.
My work is not about 'form follows function ' but 'form follows beauty' or even better 'form follows feminine.'
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things this function can be more fully performed by this art which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes in galleries on the walls of auction houses and off the walls in museum storage.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate implicit morality not didactic. A morality which changes the blood rather than the mind.