"Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture."

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Source : "Painting and plastic art". De Stijl, series XIII, 73-4, pp. 17 - 18, 1926.

Theo van Doesburg

#Lying Quotes #Expression Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I am one to believe that life starts at the moment of conception.”
“Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources.”

Source : Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.90, Papadakis Publisher
“If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal.”
“Beautiful and rare Aurora, In the heavens thou art their Flora”

Source : Christopher Pearse Cranch (1844). “Poems”, p.48
“I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.”
“The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government,”

Source : "How Schumer and Dems may have sealed Gorsuch's confirmation" by Alex Diaz, www.foxnews.com. March 19, 2017.
“If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.”
“My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.”

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