Quotes of: Frankness Keyword

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

Steven Holl

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

Tadao Ando

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Vitruvius

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

Arthur Erickson

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

The Architecture of Community

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

Re: CP

The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.

Jacob Epstein

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

Robert Glasper

Your main radio stations, the stations that get the most listeners, don't play anything that has any kind of integrity to it.

Robert Glasper

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Stan Getz

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

Tony Levin

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.

Kevin Eubanks

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

Laura Mvula

Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.

Laura Mvula

You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

Michael Arad

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

Michael Arad

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Mose Allison

At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.

Mose Allison

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

Mose Allison

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Mose Allison