"In a way, I feel I have enough tools and knowledge now that when I build it has a very specific agency that's very conscious. It's no longer speculative; it's really constructed. I'm very interested in how that consciousness, about how I am producing, is working within different conditions. It's like growing up."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

David Adjaye

#Growing Up Quotes #Agency Quotes #Way Quotes

“Since I suffered the injury on company time, why shouldn't I also be able to get surgery and do recovery on company time?”
“Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.”
“Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.”

Source : Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1902). “The House of Life: A Sonnet-sequence”, p.17, Library of Alexandria
“Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole.”
“The key is realizing - and believing - that this world is not your home. If you and I ever hope to free our lives from worldly desires, worldly thinking, worldly pleasures, worldly dreams, worldly ideals, worldly values, worldly ambitions, and worldly acclaim, then we must focus our lives on another world.”
“Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media.”
“Itâ€™s only on the brink that people find the will to change.Â Only at the precipice do we evolve.”
“One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.”

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