Form Follows Function?

I need to reconcile two diametrically opposed facets of my personality if I'm ever going to be creative again; the side that wants to create anything fun and/or beautiful to look at, and the side that wants things to have a practical function. As yet I have not found a middle ground.

Therefore... quotes!


“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

Oops. Fail.

"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."
—Frank Lloyd Wright

Sounds good, if not rather sanctimonious...

"Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional."
—David Byrne

Oh snap!

“Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife”
—Jonathan Schattke

And what is the afterbirth, eh?

“It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.”
—Vincent van Gogh

It's the thinking about my work that makes me crazy...

“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”
—Ernest Hemingway

Mm.

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.”
—Ray Bradbury

Easier said than done, my friend!