Quote collection
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"Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness."
"I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas."
"I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems."
"The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul."
"The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point."
"We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients."
"I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking."
"I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city."
"The corruption of the American soul is consumerism."
"Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny."
"I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction."
"Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea."
"The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that."
"I'm not an expert, but I want to be."
"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best."
"Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean."
"I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else."
"I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter."
"The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture."
"When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life."