"I wanted to clear up the slum of legsâ€¦ I wanted to make the chair all one thing again."

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Source : Eero Saarinen (1962). “Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect”, New Haven : Yale University Press

Eero Saarinen

#Legs Quotes #Chairs Quotes #Clear Quotes

“I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.”
“If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 3, 2009.
“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”
“There are beautiful sounds in rock. Very lazy, dreamlike noises. You can forget about the lyrics in most songs. Just dig the noise, and you've got your sound...We're musical primitives.”
“In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.”
“My brother never had me to dinner in his life.”
“Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.”

Source : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1937). “Three Ways Home”
“My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy, and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.”

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