Utilitarian Quotes

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.