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“I tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house.”

Quote by Alvar Aalto

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Alvar Aalto was a Finnish architect known for his modernist style and functionalist philosophy. His works include several iconic buildings in Finland, such as the Vyborg Art Museum and the Paimio Sanatorium. Aalto's designs emphasized the harmony between nature and the human environment, leaving a profound impact on the architectural world of the 20th century. more

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“Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.”

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Book:Alvar Aalto: points of contact

Source: Alvar Aalto: points of contact

“The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.”

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“The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.”

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Book:Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Source: Alvar Aalto, Furniture and Glass: Exhibition the Museum of Modern Art, New York

“We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.”

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Book:Synopsis

Source: Synopsis

“The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth.”

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Author:Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

“Architecture in general is frozen music.”

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“When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?”

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Author:Eustace Budgell

“It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves.”

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“His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.”

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Book:Robert Kennedy: a memoir

Source: Robert Kennedy: a memoir

“Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.”

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Book:RFK: A Memoir

Source: RFK: A Memoir