"We have to base architecture on the environment."

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Source : "Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2013.

Toyo Ito

#Architecture Quotes #Environment Quotes

“I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.”
“I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death, a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment â€“ if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes â€“ everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.”

Source : Interview with Una Mullally, www.irishtimes.com. October 14, 2013.
“By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.”
“A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.”
“A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.”

Source : "The Frame We Put Around Our Circumstances" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2017.
“I just want to do something challenging.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.”
“Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.”

Source : Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.87, Broadway Books

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