25 result(s) for Quotes About Cultures And Physical Objects.
"Civilization is hooped together, brought under a rule, by the পেল পেল পেল pelt of physical objects."
"Show me the country’s buildings, and I will tell you the aspirations of its people."
"Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries cities have remained the same."
"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."
"Every building is a prototype. No two are alike."
"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is more important than Mies."
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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."
"The clothes make the man."
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."
"The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain."
"Every great architect is necessarily a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."
"First we shape our tools, then our tools shape us."
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
"Our artifacts are what we borrow from the future to show what we have been."
"Tell me what company keeps, and I'll tell you what you are."
"The details are not the details. They make the design."
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"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."
"The history of objects is the history of the world."
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
