"Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work."

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Source : Alvar Aalto, Alvar Aalto-museo (1994). “Alvar Aalto: points of contact”

Alvar Aalto

#Ideas Quotes #Creative Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I love life. I love life to death.”
“People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.”
“Of course, western is my native music,”
“Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.”
“The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.”
“In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'”
“...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.”
“The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.”

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