"What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state."

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Aldo Rossi

#Technique Quotes #Architecture Quotes #Surprise Quotes

“Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous.”
“Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.”
“My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet.”
“I live a different way today. I have a family, and they are a priority for me. These days, I no longer wake up in the morning and worry if my bass is tuned properly and practice for hours and hours on end. I don't perform as much, but when I do, there's such magic to working in front of a live audience.”
“As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.”
“There's something about being there, on the set, in costume, in the moment, where you start to get a feel for the scene, which is not the same as sitting in your office writing it.”
“Don't miss your life.”
“A pie in the face is funny. Comedy gold.”

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