Adrian Forty famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
-- Adrian Forty

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Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.
-- Adrian Forty

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The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
â€¦words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anewâ€¦.
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.
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
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
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.

Adrian Forty famous quotes

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