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> [Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/tradition-can-to-be-sure-participate-in-a-creation-but-it-can-no/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

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## More by Kenzo Tange

> [I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/i-feel-however-that-we-architects-have-a-special-duty-and-mission-to/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

> [Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/architecture-must-have-something-that-appeals-to-the-human-heart/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

> [Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/technological-considerations-are-of-great-importance-to-architecture/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

> [Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/inconsistency-itself-breeds-vitality/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

> [Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/tradition-can-to-be-sure-participate-in-a-creation-but-it-can-no/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

> [I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/i-first-decided-architecture-was-for-me-when-i-saw-le-corbusier-s/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

> [Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/designs-of-purely-arbitrary-nature-cannot-be-expected-to-last-long/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

> [I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/i-like-to-think-there-is-something-deep-in-our-own-world-of-reality/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

> [There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/there-is-a-powerful-need-for-symbolism-and-that-means-the/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

> [Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/nevertheless-the-basic-forms-spaces-and-appearances-must-be-logical/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

> [In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/in-my-opinion-further-consideration-of-those-views-will-help-us-find/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

> [We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/we-live-in-a-world-where-great-incompatibles-co-exist-the-human-scale/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

> [I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/i-am-aware-of-changes-gradually-taking-place-in-my-own-designs-as/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

> [In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/in-architecture-the-demand-was-no-longer-for-box-like-forms-but-for/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

> [Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzo-tange/architects-today-tend-to-depreciate-themselves-to-regard-themselves/)

[Kenzo Tange](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzo-tange/)

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