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To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.
Annabelle Selldorf
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I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.
Annabelle Selldorf
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Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
Annabelle Selldorf
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I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.
El Greco
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The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.
Leon Battista Alberti
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I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.
Vannoccio Biringuccio
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A long life is a life well spent.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish.
Thomas Jefferson
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Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
J. William Schickel
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I have no words for my reality.
Max Frisch
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You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
John Ruskin
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I am really interested in the idea that art can reach wider, can go further, can go beyond the art world, why not? People are intelligent, people are visually intelligent, and why shouldn't the work be able to engage some of that?
Anish Kapoor
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The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
Anish Kapoor
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Is it my role as an artist to say something, to express, to be expressive? I think it's my role as an artist to bring to expression, it's not my role to be expressive.
Anish Kapoor
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If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.
Anish Kapoor
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Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.
Anish Kapoor
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That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
Anish Kapoor
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If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.
Anish Kapoor
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We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
Anish Kapoor
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I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to
Anish Kapoor
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One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury
Anish Kapoor
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My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
Anish Kapoor
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