"This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place."

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Source : "Riverwalk architect sees revival in city". Interview with Ally Marotti, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

Carol Ross Barney

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“I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age).”
“This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.”
“It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.”
“If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.”
“I didn't think so much of him at first. But now I get it: he's everything that I'm not.”
“The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.”
“I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.”
“I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.”

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