Badass Quotes - Page 9

• Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

  Renzo Piano

  Fighting, Bad Ass, Ideas

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• Home is where you hang your architect.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Home, Bad Ass, Architecture

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• The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Bad Ass, Design, Fundamentals

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• When we build, let us think that we build forever.

  John Ruskin

  Bad Ass, Thinking, Forever

  Seven Lamps of Architecture "The Lamp of Memory" sec. 10 (1849)

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• As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

  Norman Foster

  Past, Bad Ass, Design

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• I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

  Frank Gehry

  Bad Ass, People, Architecture

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• There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

  David Chipperfield

  Mean, Bad Ass, People

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• Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Bad Ass, Important, Facts

  "The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer". Book by Oscar Niemeyer, 1998.

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• The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

  El Lissitzky

  Inspiration, Bad Ass, Space

  El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

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• In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.

  Oskar Schlemmer

  Inspiration, Simple, Bad Ass

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• The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

  Honore de Balzac

  Bad Ass, Events, Architecture

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• Form ever follows function.

  Louis Sullivan

  Bad Ass, Design, Architect

  'The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered' (1896)

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Bad Ass, Reality, Men

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• Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

  Maya Lin

  Bad Ass, Architecture, Fantastic

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• The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

  Mario Botta

  Inspiration, Bad Ass, Drawing

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• Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Art, Bad Ass, Soul

  What We Live By (1932) pt. 2, ch. 12

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• It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

  Michelangelo

  Bad Ass, Men, Architecture

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, E. H. Ramsden (1963). “The Letters of Michelangelo”, p.129, Stanford University Press

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• The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Bad Ass, Enemy

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• Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

  Frank Stella

  Real, Bad Ass, Personality

  Frank Stella, Bonnie Clearwater (2000). “Frank Stella at 2000”, Museum of Contemporary Art

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• I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

  Ayn Rand

  Bad Ass, Order, Racist

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• Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Bertrand Russell (1995). “My Philosophical Development”, p.204, Psychology Press

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• If you want some advice—which I'm sure you don't—you guys should lay off on the magic. Christian still thinks you're moving in on Lissa." "What?" he asked in mock astonishment. "Doesn't he know my heart belongs to you?" "It does not. And no, he's still worried about it, despite what I've told him." "You know, I bet if we started making out right now, it would make him feel better." "If you touch me," I said pleasantly, "I'll provide you with the opportunity to see if you can heal yourself. Then we'd see how badass you really are.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Moving, Heart

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.495, Penguin

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• My boyfriend and I are badasses.

  Nora Roberts

  My Boyfriend

  Nora Roberts (2008). “The Pagan Stone”, p.177, Penguin

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• I knew you were a badass," continued Adrian. "But I didn't realize just how much until I saw you dropping guardians out there." "Does that mean you're going to be nicer to me?" I teased. "I'm already nice to you," he said loftily. "Do you know how badly I want a cigarette right now? But no. I manfully suffer through nicotine withdrawal—all for you.

  Richelle Mead

  Nice, Mean, Rose

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• Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle. Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, "There shall be a badass," and Jim sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action.

  Ilona Andrews

  Baby, Children, Block

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