"Architecture is art, nothing else."

-- Philip Johnson

#Art Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“Music and love are the wings of the soul.”
“Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.”

Source : Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.177, Univ of California Press
“Stay as focused as possible and keep simplifying down your ideas till you have something small you can launch quickly and iterate on. Be ruthless in hiring only the best people. Keep fit and try to exercise even in the longest times.”
“For the record, my own loyalties are uncomplicated. I adore few humans more than I love books. I make no promises, but I do not expect to purchase a Kindle or a Nook or any of their offspring. I hope to keep bringing home bound paper books until my shelves snap from their weight, until there is no room in my apartment for a bed or a couch or another human being, until the floorboards collapse and my eyes blur to dim. But the book, bless it, is not a simple thing.”
“Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.”
“Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.”
“There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.”
“Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.”

Source : Song: You Are Loved, Album: Awake, 2006

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