"Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of…" — Richard Rogers
"Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times."
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44 Quotes by Richard Rogers
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My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is…
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The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
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Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces.…
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This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.
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Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to…
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I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the…
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Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
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The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
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I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking…
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Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from…
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Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty…
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Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get…
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to…
— Paul Auster
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
— J. G. Ballard
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
— J. G. Ballard
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
— A. S. Byatt
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
— Deepak Chopra
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I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
— Richard Courant
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A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
— Bruno Munari
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