James Polshek famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
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I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.
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I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.
-- James Polshek
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The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
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Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
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Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.
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There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry.
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You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.
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Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
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