Cedric Price famous quotes

A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.
-- Cedric Price

#Real #Quality #Improvement

Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.
-- Cedric Price

#Dull #Matter #Architect

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.
-- Cedric Price

#Architecture #Problem #Problem Solvers

Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
-- Cedric Price

#Opportunity #Littles #Impossible

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.
-- Cedric Price

#Moving #Medicine #Architecture

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?
-- Cedric Price

#Technology #Answers

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.
-- Cedric Price

#Architecture #Environment #Distortion

The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.

It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.