"What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images."

-- Peter Zumthor

#Art Quotes #Trying Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.”
“By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?”
“Barrels are very difficult to find. But when you have them, give them lots of equity. Promote them, take them to dinner every week, because they are virtually irreplaceable because they are also very culturally specific. So a barrel at one company may not be a barrel at another company. One of the ways, the definition of a barrel is, they can take an idea from conception and take it all the way to shipping and bring people with them.”
“If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes”
“When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.”

Source : Ivan Goncharov (2006). “Oblomov: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.”
“When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.”

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