"I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them."

-- Frank Gehry

“I hate imitation jewelry, dark lipstick and most of all a shrill voice. This has spoiled many a picture of feminine loveliness.”
“When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum...for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.”
“Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.”
“If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.”
“Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.”
“The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwardsâ€”to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.”
“At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants...”

Source : Erwin Mitsch, Egon Schiele (1988). “The art of Egon Schiele”
“**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23”

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