Quotes of: Morris Keyword

If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.

Peter Eisenman

I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.

Peter Eisenman

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

Paul Goldberger

As a designer, you have to think in time and see things in sequence. You have to see information as a narrative form - Paul Mijksenaar quoted by Kim Baer

Paul Mijksenaar

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

Pepper Schwartz

I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.

Peter Zumthor

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

Peter Zumthor

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

Robert Staughton Lynd

How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

S. Jay Olshansky

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.

S. Jay Olshansky

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

S. Jay Olshansky

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

Todd Gitlin

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Todd Gitlin

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Todd Gitlin

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.

Todd Gitlin

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

Toyo Ito

I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies.

Toyo Ito

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

Toyo Ito

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

Tibor Kalman

Find a place that you are comfortable with. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make a lot of mistakes.

Thom Mayne