As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution.… — Leon Krier Copy Share
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good.… — Leon Krier Copy Share
The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr.… — Leon Krier Copy Share
I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism. — Leon Krier Copy Share
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. — Leon Krier Copy Share
Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to… — Leon Krier Copy Share
A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a… — Leon Krier Copy Share
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always… — Leon Krier Copy Share
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land. — Leon Krier Copy Share
You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street. — Leon Krier Copy Share
Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history… — Leon Krier Copy Share
Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim.… — Leon Krier Copy Share
As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely. — Leon Krier Copy Share
For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate. — Leon Krier Copy Share
