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Charles Jencks has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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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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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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I don't own a Kindle, no. I love books, they are beautiful objects.
— John Banville
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a…
— Walter Pater
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For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success†and “failure†had…
— Paul Auster
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One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones
— Finn Juhl
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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
— Democritus
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The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.
— Morley Baer
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Beautiful objects, ideas, even beautiful people all share the power to lift the spirits and motivate creativity while at the same time…
— Thomas Kinkade
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