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Charles Jencks has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?
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Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme,…
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The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin,…
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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
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Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts…
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You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster.…
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Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
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I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you…
— Ray Charles
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined…
— Samuel Johnson
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in…
— Henryk Skolimowski
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A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence"…
— Ludwig von Mises
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the…
— J. William Fulbright
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization…
— Thomas Paine
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the…
— Joan Didion
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