"True architecture exists only where man stands in the center."

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Source : Alvar Aalto, Peter Reed, Kenneth Frampton, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1998). “Alvar Aalto: between humanism and materialism”, ABRAMS

Alvar Aalto

#Men Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the relations between a particular set of phenomena may be studied to the best advantage.”
“When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.”

Source : FaceBook post by David Copperfield from May 28, 2012
“I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.”
“I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.”

Source : Title of song (1977)
“I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.”
“The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs”
“Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...”

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