"In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him."

-- Christian Morgenstern

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“Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.”
“We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.”
“Survival must come before civilization.”
“It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization for centuries, so what seems to them unnecessary, from a racial point of view, becomes necessary to us, who have had to labor all along under the disadvantage of being scattered without a racial aim or purpose.”
“If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me.”
“Architecture is about public space held by buildings.”

Source : "Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.
“When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.”
“I've never been fired in my life.”

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