Emilio Ambasz famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."
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In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.
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I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.
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Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
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Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.
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The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.
-- Emilio Ambasz
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So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.
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My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.
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The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
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We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.
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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
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I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
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Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
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Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
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The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.
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