"The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves."

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Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

Ada Louise Huxtable

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“We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.”

Source : "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
“I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.”
“For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.”

Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”
“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”
“I'm always kind of in my head thinking.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to do their own thing; the environment which must, to a great extent, be realized first if more particular Utopian visions are to be realized stably.”

Source : Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”
“I'm completely happy and fulfilled in my personal life.”

Source : The Details Magazine Interview, people.com. 2010.
“Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me”

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