"The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar."

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Source : Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.247, MIT Press

Bernard Tschumi

#Eye Quotes #Shelter Quotes #Bricks Quotes

“I trust the mystery. I trust what comes in silence and what comes in nature where there's no diversion. I think the lack of stimulation allows us to hear and experience a deeper river that's constant, still, vibrant, and real. And the process of deep listening with attention and intention catalyzes and mobilizes exactly what's needed at that time.”
“Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.”
“I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American... There's never an American-American you can blame.”

Source : "Attention Scum". TV Series, 2001.
“If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?”
“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.”

Source : Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.
“I think someone's sexual orientation is great fodder for gossip. But again, it's non-news to me or anyone who knows me.”
“Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.”
“Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.”

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