Jean Nouvel Quotes

#1. I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.

Jean Nouvel

#2. No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

Lydia M. Child

#3. Never dislike anything in life because you may struggle when you get it.

DK Publishing

#4. Each new situation requires a new architecture.

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#5. Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.

George Herbert

#6. I like English parks.

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#7. Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

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#8. If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

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#9. It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most of the rest of reality. It seems we make ourselves up as we go along.

Maureen O'Hara

#10. Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls ... .

James A. Murphy

#11. The thousands of clips on internet are better to us than any DVD that could have been released.

Thomas Bangalter

#12. To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing.

Josh Holloway

#13. It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

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#14. I think architecture has to be a gift.

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#15. 'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read.

Adrian Tomine

#16. Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective.

Alexandra Johnson

#17. Art should be created for life, not for the museum.

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#18. All she ever wanted was to be protected by layer upon layer of kind, soft, insulating money,

Margaret Atwood

#19. I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

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#20. My buildings are more famous than me.

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#21. The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do a structure you cannot see or understand how it's done. It disappears and you can talk only about color, symbols, and light. It's an aesthetic of miracle.

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#22. There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Lorraine Hansberry

#23. Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

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#24. Ready?"
"Fuck no."
"Tough.

Jo Willow

#25. I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

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#26. My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now - our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.

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#27. The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to vision.

Jean Nouvel