"If I have a style, I am not aware of it."

-- Michael Graves

#Style Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“I think my image gets distorted in the public's mind. They don't get a clear or full picture of what I'm like, despite the press coverage I mentioned early. Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told. The part that doesn't get printed is often the part that would make the printed part less sensational by shedding light on the facts.”
“The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that.”
“Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant.”
“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.”
“There needs to be an app that edits what I say versus what I want to say.”

Source : "Basic Blake". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. January 17, 2012.
“A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played the Allegro and the Scherzo more or less correctly. I was about to attack the March when suddenly I saw arising from the body of my piano those cursed creatures which had appeared to me one lugubrious night at the Chartreuse. I had to leave for one instant to pull myself together after which I continued without saying anything.”
“I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.”
“Every age has its happiness and troubles.”

Source : "Jeanne Calment: From Van Gogh's Time to Ours, 122 Extraordinary Years". Book by Michel Allard, Victor Lebre, Jean-Marie Robine and Jeanne Calment (p. 48), 1998.

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