William Kent famous quotes
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Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
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I like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
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And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.
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I am used to being beautiful. I have been beautiful for so long that it is an essential part of me. I would not be the same spiritually if I had not been beautiful.
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It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
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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.
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.
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