Peter Clewes famous quotes

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.
-- Peter Clewes

#Important #Contemporary Society #Contemporary

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.
-- Peter Clewes

#Trying #Historic #Building

I'm a passionate person, and I care deeply about the work I do. It's very, very important to me that it's well received.
-- Peter Clewes

#Important #Passionate #Care

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.
-- Peter Clewes

#Believe #Creating #Vacuums

Yesterday is always better than today and the fear of tomorrow. I don't think there's anything absolutely wrong with that, it's just the way we are. So when people are presented with something new, there is a very visceral reaction.
-- Peter Clewes

#Thinking #Yesterday #People

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.
-- Peter Clewes

#Artist #Criticism #Hurtful

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.
-- Peter Clewes

#Art #People #Territory

Public commentary absolutely influences my work.
-- Peter Clewes

#Influence #Commentary

We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have to respond to public engagement. That's what you sign up for when you decide to become an architect.
-- Peter Clewes

#Engagement #Building #Architect

Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.

Life is more important than 'what film I do next.

Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.