Carrie Fulton Phillips famous quotes

I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.
-- Carrie Fulton Phillips

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I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me

I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate .

If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds

To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.

I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.