George Pendle famous quotes

I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium.
-- George Pendle

#Airports #Design #Roles

An airport carpet can tell you everything about its surroundings!
-- George Pendle

#Airports #Surroundings #Carpet

Hard floorings such as marble, wood, terrazzo and linoleum, have become fashionable of late, but I believe they create a characterless "international" style that is as opposed to interpretation as it is repellent to the foot.
-- George Pendle

#Believe #Feet #Style

Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.
-- George Pendle

#Airports #Carpet #Intellect

If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.
-- George Pendle

#Prayer #Airports #Other Worlds

If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will.
-- George Pendle

#Marketing #Giants #Consciousness

Feathers! spluttered Sargatanas. Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that's what real beings wear. I'll tell you a secret. He said, and drew me closer. The eternal pain at having known Paradise and lost it is priceless. I wouldn't swap it for anything.
-- George Pendle

#Pain #Real #Boys

I get depressed at airports.

Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.

When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.

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.

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.

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

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

The role of the artist is to not look away.