Lee Kun-hee famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.
Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.
Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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 designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flowâ€¦
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

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