Alexander Jackson Davis famous quotes

I am but an architectural composer.
-- Alexander Jackson Davis

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I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
-- Alexander Jackson Davis

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One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.