Alvar Aalto Quotes

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Alvar Aalto

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• I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Think
  • Shoes
  • Sexy

• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Me
  • Dad

• Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Different
  • Marriage

• I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Future
  • Universe
  • Curiosity

• She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • She
  • Lost
  • Decision

• Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Me
  • Taught
  • Cautious

• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Money
  • Army

• Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Business
  • Dad
  • College

• There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Feeling
  • Moments
  • Teacher

• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Deep
  • Very
  • New Years

• Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Now
  • Smoke

• Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Tough
  • Islam
  • Original

• In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • American
  • Mother
  • Television

• Network was just never the right fit with what I think is funny.

  

  Jason Jones
  • Funny

• Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Power
  • Evidence
  • Nonsense

• To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Long
  • Art
  • Character

• Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

  

  Donald Judd
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?'

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Life
  • True
  • Death

• Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Art