"Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail."

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Source : Interview with Josephine Minutillo, www.architecturaldigest.com. December 31, 2011.

Steven Holl

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #House Quotes

“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.”
“Don't measure the size of the mountain; talk to the One who can move it.”
“I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.”
“As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.”

Source : "'92 Olympian Yamaguchi balances road, family". Interview with Suzanne Riss, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2010.
“I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.”
“I realized I could do anything if I wanted it badly enough.”
“It was nothing, but it was Adam Parrish's nothing. How he hated and loved it. How proud he was of it, how wretched it was.”
“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”

Source : Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.99, Faber & Faber

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