"Should not the role of design be to reconnect human beings with their space on their land?"

-- Dan Kiley

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“I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.”
“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.”
“A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.”
“I've decided I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty is just too good to pass up.”
“many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.”
“The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature.”

Source : "Genius Talk: Conversations With Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries". Book by Denis Brian, 1995.
“Empty canvas. In appearance - really empty, silent, indifferent. Stunned, almost. In effect - full of tensions, with thousand subdued voices, heavy with expectations. A little frightened because it may be violated”
“I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.”

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