“As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.” GrowsGrowing UpSensitiveEthnicityProactive Author:Prefuse 73
“Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.” SometimesCommunityMusicalHip HopHipsHopsBarriersDemographics Author:Prefuse 73
“It's just weird that indie rock heads and so on are connecting to my music.” RocksConnectingIndie Rock Author:Prefuse 73
“My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.” PlayMotherTroubleInstrumentsJazzParksTake MeConcerts Author:Prefuse 73
“I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.” AgeSufferingFatherGrewGrew UpSickHospitals Author:T. D. Jakes
“I see architecture as a form of communication over time.” FormCommunicationArchitecture Author:Jimenez Lai
“What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.” PeopleWayUsedCultureInterestingCitiesArchitectureDiggingOther CulturesArchaeologyDiagrams Author:Jimenez Lai
“If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don't have to speak Czech to understand the feeling of the local sensations through architecture. That is a kind of communication that no language can perform.” IfsKindCountryFeelingsSpeakLanguageCommunicationArchitectureLocalsSensationsRepublicForeign CountriesCzechCzech Republic Author:Jimenez Lai
“When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based; it's too form-driven. Which is kind of shocking for a visual practice, for someone to say something discouraging about a focus on an exploration of aesthetics.” KindFormPracticeFocusStudentsProjectsDrivenVisualsExplorationFormalShockingAestheticsDiscouraging Author:Jimenez Lai