"Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary……" — Charles Jencks
"Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm."
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Charles Jencks
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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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I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
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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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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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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able…
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in…
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about…
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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