Martin Filler Quotes

Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.

Martin Filler

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Quotes to Explore

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

Samuel Lover
- Man
- Literature
- Pen
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

Gary Hamel
- Up
- Time
- World
The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.

Orison Swett Marden
- People
- World
- Man
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Dag Hammarskjold
- World
- Play
- Insecurity
The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.

Adam Ostrow
- World
- Society
- Internet
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt
- World
- Painting
- Opinions