Bernd Becher Quotes

We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to monumentalize the object. This was exploited in terms of a socialistic view - a fresh view of the world, a new man, a new beginning.

Bernd Becher

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• Socialistic View

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• Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

  

  Oren Peli
  • World
  • Friends
  • Doing

• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • New York

• I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Heard
  • Cried
  • Johnny

• Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Food

• One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Attention

• I find it hard to say, because when I was there it seemed to be shut.

  

  Clement Freud
  • Shut

• No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

  

  William Feather
  • Life
  • Men
  • Positive

• ...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.

  

  Anders Chydenius
  • Freedom
  • Merit
  • Fatherland

• Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

  

  Albert Hadley
  • Important
  • Design
  • Lighting

• Mortals, while through the world you go, Hope may succor and faith befriend, Yet happy your hearts if you can but know, Love awaits at the journey's end!

  

  Clinton Scollard
  • World
  • Love
  • Happy

• The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

  

  Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Joke

• True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Danger
  • Causes
  • Theology

• Buildings are forms of performances.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Buildings
  • Forms

• You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Wonderful
  • Buildings
  • Towns

• If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Study
  • Understand
  • Entrepreneur

• In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to monumentalize the object. This was exploited in terms of a socialistic view - a fresh view of the world, a new man, a new beginning.

  

  Bernd Becher
  • Buildings
  • Monumentalize
  • Socialistic View