"A sign to me is a one-liner, a……" — Charles Jencks
"A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols."
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16 Quotes by Charles Jencks
Charles Jencks has 16 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones…
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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…
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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,…
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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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What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.
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Europe has been in my bones.
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Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine…
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Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain,…
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More Complex Quotes
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
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I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more…
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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its…
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
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The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're…
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification…
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Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex…
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
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