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Q A Small Book of Quotations
Ino Kouladourou - Week 8 _ Repository of Insight _ Generative Thinking
“What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.� Charles Baudelaire
“Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.” Walter Benjamin
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” Winston Churchill
“A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.� Frank Lloyd Wright
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” Frank Lloyd Wright
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” Frank Gehry
“Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music” Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
“Η Μουσική είναι ένα ηθικό δίκαιο. Δίνει ψυχή στο σύμπαν, φτερά στο νου, πτήση στη φαντασία, και γοητεία και ευθυμία στη ζωή και τα πάντα” Σωκράτης
“Πράττε μεγάλα μη υπισχνούμενος μεγάλα” Πυθαγόρας
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci
“Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.” Walter Benjamin
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs
‘Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.” Charles Eames
“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” Walt Disney