Top 27 Holl Quotes
#1. Success in life is 50% what you know and 50% who you know, and one is not worth much without the other.- Senator Edwin G. Holl
Paul Edwin Holl Esq.
#2. I think a mother needs to be with mothers. I don't know what they talk about.
Marie Helvin
#3. BRAVE are the courageous souls who dare step outside the predefined yellowbrick road.
Kami Guildner
#4. I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it's scary how things can go wrong. But if there's no risk involved, it's not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.
Steven Holl
#5. Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.
Steven Holl
#6. Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.
Steven Holl
#7. Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
Steven Holl
#8. Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life.
Lauren Conrad
#9. As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#10. I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.
Steven Holl
#11. I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.
Gwendoline Christie
#12. Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.
Samantha Bond
#13. The whole notion of an embassy is like 'The Other.' That's what makes Washington interesting.
Steven Holl
#14. I'm fighting for this girl on the battlefield of love
Got me look like baby Cupid
Sending arrows from above
Jay Sean
#15. Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.
Steven Holl
#16. There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#17. My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.
Steven Holl
#18. one of the less well-advertised secrets of group sex was how often it came down to logistics.
Alexis Hall
#19. For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.
Steven Holl
#20. You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.
Steven Holl
#21. I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.
Steven Holl
#22. I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.
Steven Holl
#23. I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.
Steven Holl
#24. I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
Steven Holl
#25. Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.
Steven Holl
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