Top 18 David Rockwell Quotes
#1. Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.
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#2. Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.
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#3. Play and transformation were a bit part of my childhood - using whatever materials were at our disposal, my brothers and I would constantly build and create fantasy worlds.
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#4. Does this wild errant need fade, like the colour of eyes do?
Sue Woolfe
#5. Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.
David Hanson
#7. My work is strongly rooted in place and memory, in personal, formative experiences that took shape within very different environments.
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#8. I don't think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that's frozen in time. I'm more interested in transitions.
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#9. I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.
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#11. In our highly mediated, technologically driven world, we're all looking for meaningful ways to connect. This has constantly inspired me to create environments full of lively, immersive, experiential elements specifically crafted to foster human connection.
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#12. I think I just learned that God has a plan for all of us, and I work hard and do all the things I can, but at the same time, His will is perfect; and me trying to control it, it's not going to work.
Matt Holliday
#13. The design of a restaurant should embrace the identity of the chef, the nature of the cuisine, and the context of the restaurant itself.
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#14. You have to think of a restaurant as a series of impressions. But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.
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#15. Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.
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#17. Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.
Paul Harvey
#18. Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.
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