Alvar Aalto Quotes
In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.
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I always watch the work I do.
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I hope to work till I'm an old lady.
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What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
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For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.
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I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
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When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of my world.
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In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.
