"I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen from afar, as a great scale model: the city as an avatar of itself."

-- Olivo Barbieri

#Cities Quotes #Identity Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention Ive gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.”
“I don't mind saying what's on my mind.”
“In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.”
“When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.”

Source : John R. Rice (1980). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.299, Sword of the Lord Publishers
“I have a task that is greater than all the labors assigned to Hercules. It demands that I live in the richness of this moment because that is all I have or will ever know.”
“What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather annoyed with people saying what species the real plum was.”
“It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner or later with its purpose, must indeed be animate with a soul, must have been breathed upon by the spirit and must breathe in turn that spirit.”

Source : Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.92, University of Chicago Press
“It's not the balanced life we remember, it's the beautiful life.”

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