Gae Aulenti famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

  • 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.

  • The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

  • The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…

  • I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

  • Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.

  • Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

  • We have declared a bitter war against the principle of democracy and all those who seek to enact it.

  • The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.

  • If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.