I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park, ' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. Charles Jencks
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More Quotes By Charles Jencks
  1. Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.
  2. If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer...
  3. I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park, ' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should...
  4. I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
  5. Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.
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