"The rule seems to be that there are……" — Charles Jencks
"The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant."
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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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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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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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More Absolutes Quotes
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There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.
— Kathy Whitworth
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes…
— Ayn Rand
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The laughter in response to my question unmasked the double standard our deconstructionists espouse. And that is precisely the double…
— Ravi Zacharias
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...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe,…
— Julian Huxley
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I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work…
— Raymond Chandler
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Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes.
— Dave Filoni
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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded…
— Charles Dickens
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There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion.…
— John Dewey
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Meaning can only be understood in relation to its environment. Therefore, the words only make full sense in context... There…
— Serge King
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that…
— James Dobson
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God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments…
— L. Tom Perry
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