"Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land."

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Source : Leon Krier (2009). “The Architecture of Community”, p.75, Island Press

Leon Krier

#Distance Quotes #Light Quotes #Land Quotes

“Involution always precedes evolution.”
“They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment and growth of the arts; not their dimination or destruction.”
“The danger with the internet is that you don't need to think about music, you just search for it and you find the answer. Singing used to be part of everyday life. Women sang while pounding corn. Men sang while paddling canoes.”
“When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.”
“You're able to use a search engine, like Google or Bing or whatever. But those engines don't understand anything about pages that they give you; they essentially index the pages based on the words that you're searching, and then they intersect that with the words in your query, and they use some tricks to figure out which pages are more important than others. But they don't understand anything.”
“I'm not a joiner. I don't like organizations.”
“In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.”
“The challenge for me was not just the prosthetic work and how to move like an older man would move, but more so how to have 50 years of experience in the workplace and talk to a young Robert F. Kennedy as if he was some political upstart that didn't know what the hell he was talking about. That was the big challenge [in the J. Edgar Hoover mÐ¾vie].”

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