"The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived."

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Source : "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.

Leon Krier

#Artist Quotes #Order Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible? and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.”
“I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.”
“If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.”
“A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.”
“Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.”
“Since we ate taking orders, get me some sunchips!”
“A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.”

Source : Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Maeterlinck and I”

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