"Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before."

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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Ada Louise Huxtable

#Art Quotes #Self Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact: indeed, it is by our readiness to die that we try to prove the factualness of our opinion.”
“If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.”
“Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.”

Source : Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.51, Applewood Books
“The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.”
“Dr. King has long been my hero. I didn't get to work with him much, but my husband did in the early years. Dr. King gave his life, really, to the struggle for everyone. And he believed in non-violence. That's what I've tried to do in terms of my life and my work, following the teachings of God.”
“Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.”
“In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.”

Source : "The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht - review" by Kapka Kassabova, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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