Richard Rogers Quotes
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
Richard Rogers
Quotes to Explore
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
Pat Paulsen
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
Calvin Coolidge
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
Tadao Ando
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You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
Patricia Marx
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
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I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Architecture is definitely a political act.
Peter Eisenman
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In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.
Elizabeth Diller
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Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
David Josiah Brewer
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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
Louis Kahn
