"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."

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Source : "From Bauhaus to Koolhaas". Interview with Katrina Heron, www.wired.com. July 1, 1996.

Rem Koolhaas

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.”

Source : Walter Kohn, Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger (2003). “Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators”, p.295, Springer Science & Business Media
“With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.”
“Any peace is better than any war”
“My Internet friends who I play games with say, 'This guy's a fighter?' I'm the last person they expect to be a fighter.”
“Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths." These are worth it. These are what I have come for.”
“He who obeys the command 'Rejoice in the Lord' has a Hallelujah in his soul every minute of the day and night.”

Source : A.C. Dixon (2016). “Through Night to Morning”, p.127, Solid Christian Books
“To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'”
“There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.”

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