"I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods."

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Source : "David Chipperfield Talks Architecture and Luxury". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.architecturaldigest.com. January 31, 2013.

David Chipperfield

#Ideas Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Acting Quotes

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.”
“It’s just as easy to lie to yourself as it is to lie to other people. Maybe easier.”

Source : David Lubar (2007). “Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie”, Puffin Books
“He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. But then these are means conducting to an end, and that end is goodness.”
“If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.”
“I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.”
“Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.”
“The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.”
“The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.”

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