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Design Quotes by Tadao Ando
- All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult…
- Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see…
- Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're…
- When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I…
- I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
- It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design,…
- The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what…
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- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
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- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks