"Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface."

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Source : Renzo Piano (1997). “Logbook”

Renzo Piano

#Light Quotes #Giving Quotes #Quality Quotes

“I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.”

Source : Details, Volume 25, Issues 8-10, 2007.
“If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that view of resurrection is not believable, and if that is all there is, then Christianity, which depends upon the truth and authenticity of Jesus' resurrection, also is not believable.”
“Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.”
“The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.”
“What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting - it starts from within.”
“It's extremely hard to know what the economic consequences of any decision will be. And I'm not a, a, a financial analyst, so I, I generally don't try to make some kind of prediction about that.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.
“I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.”

Source : Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.145, Ballantine Books

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