Willis Polk famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.
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Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
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In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.
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No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.
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To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.
-- Willis Polk
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You are the architect of your own loneliness.
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Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.
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With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
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I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.
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I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.
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I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.
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Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.
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As a child I wanted to become an architect.
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Question everything generally thought to be obvious.
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