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> [What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/what-is-a-garden-if-not-a-miniaturization-and-celebration-of-the/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

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## More by Charles Jencks

> [If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/if-you-can-t-take-the-kitsch-get-out-of-the-kitchen/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

> [Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/like-our-attitude-to-love-truth-and-goodness-we-seem-to-be-confident/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/if-you-look-at-any-leaf-on-any-tree-branch-it-s-similar-to-but-not/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

> [I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/i-do-believe-architecture-and-all-art-should-be-content-driven-it/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

> [You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/you-have-to-believe-in-a-placebo-or-it-won-t-work-but-if-it-works-it/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

> [Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/cant-you-see-we-are-in-a-dialogue-with-the-universe/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

> [What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/what-is-a-garden-if-not-a-miniaturization-and-celebration-of-the/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

> [Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/beautiful-people-are-always-with-us-as-evolutionary-psychologists-and/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

> [The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/the-cell-is-a-city-of-production-centres-each-part-working-away-like/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

> [“There is an unalterable and widening gap between exterior and interior, symbol and content, form and function -a gap which is making the environment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/there-is-an-unalterable-and-widening-gap-between-exterior-and/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

> [The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/the-singular-point-of-beautiful-objects-and-people-is-that-they-are/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

> [What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/what-is-the-most-interesting-thing-to-people-other-people/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

> [A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/a-sign-to-me-is-a-one-liner-a-symbol-is-very-complex-and-my-house-is/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

> [“Whereas art critics are ready to accept-indeed are looking for-the new fabrication of a consistent visual language, architectural critics, like the general public, are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/whereas-art-critics-are-ready-to-accept-indeed-are-looking-for-the/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

> [“A recurrent theme of this book is that architects, fairly low in the chain of command and needing jobs, are prone to compromise with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-jencks/a-recurrent-theme-of-this-book-is-that-architects-fairly-low-in-the/)

[Charles Jencks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-jencks/)

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