So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable...
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The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
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Danny Kaye
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect...
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Criss Jami
Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.
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Jason Mraz
More Quotes By Thom Mayne
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.
