"I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age."

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

David Chipperfield

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“My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.”
“Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.”
“It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.”
“Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.”
“If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!”
“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”

Source : Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”
“Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?”

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