“Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.” RevolutionElectionCampaignsDisgustingFrightening Author:Nicolas Gomez Davila
“Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.” ValuesDiesViolenceCivilizationUniqueIndifference Author:Nicolas Gomez Davila
“I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.” PeopleWayRelateEyewitnesses Author:Richard Neutra
“A building can be designed to satisfy by the month with the regularity of the provider. Or it can give satisfaction in a very different way, by the moment, the fraction of a second, with the thrill of a lover” WayGivingDifferentMomentsBuildingMonthsLoversSatisfactionDifferent WaysThrillFractionsProvidersRegularity Author:Richard Neutra
“In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.” AmericaLibertyCreativePrivilegeMannersUnlimited Author:Michael Graves
“It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this” GoalCareersDesignDevotedGood Design Author:Michael Graves
“In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good” FeelsMindHumansLooksImportantUsedDesignAspectMachinesFeel GoodGood DayHardware Author:Michael Graves
“I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.” HomeSettingSettingsDimensionsAlways BelieveInfusion Author:Michael Graves
“The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.” BodyOrderThreeQualityMiddleDesignBuildingProgramOrganizedAddressesInternalsDivisionUrbanFacadeAttics Author:Michael Graves
“I now believe there is a God...I now think it [the evidence] does point to a creative Intelligence almost entirely because of the DNA investigations. What I think the DNA material has done is that it has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements to work together.” ThinkingBelieveDoeHas BeensDoneTogetherCreativeProduceMaterialsNeededInvolvedElementsEvidenceComplexityWorking TogetherInvestigationDiverseArrangementsUnbelievableDnaFlewCreative Intelligence Author:Antony Flew