Quotes of: Frankness Keyword

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the c...

Christian de Portzamparc

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

Helmut Jahn

I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

Peter Eisenman

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

Thom Mayne

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

Army GI, Pacifist CO: The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.

The Square Book

The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their thoughts, their emotions and their actions, however unconscious of this they may be.

The Metropolis of Tomorrow

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

Frankly, I believe that identity is what's inside us.

We All Wore Stars: Memories of Anne Frank from Her Classmates

Some people work very closely with a director or a producer on something, and from the get go, they're collaborating. But typically, it's just go in for an audition, do the best you can, and if the phone rings a couple of days after the audition and ...

Roger Craig Smith

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

Paul Goldberger

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

Peter Zumthor

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Peter Zumthor

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.

Ralph Adams Cram

I'm still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.

Roy Haynes

No matter what I've done, what I've tried to do, everybody says it can't be done. And it's continuous across the complete spectrum of the various kind of realities that you confront with your ideas.

Thom Mayne

In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.

Kevin Eubanks

And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.

Lawrence Halprin

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on t...

Lawrence Halprin

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.

Leon Krier