"Then I sit down, work at it, because……" — Lawrence Halprin
"Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art."
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Lawrence Halprin
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15 Quotes by Lawrence Halprin
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The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden…
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Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning -…
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The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.
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The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different…
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I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only…
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And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them.…
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And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and…
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Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living…
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One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main…
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Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are…
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Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client…
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I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the…
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