Top 78 Jimenez Quotes
#2. ... Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#3. Brave is not saying I have no fear. It's being terrified and still moving forward.
Elisa Jimenez
#4. I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.
Jimenez Lai
#5. Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.
Jimenez Lai
#6. I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#7. It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.
Jimenez Lai
#8. Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.
Jimenez Lai
#9. The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.
Jimenez Lai
#10. Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#11. 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.
Jimenez Lai
#12. My style for the moment is modern mystic priestess.
Elisa Jimenez
#14. Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.
Ubaldo Jimenez
#15. I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and of seas-, everything, out to the infinite, was filled with a fragrance, enormous and alive.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#16. The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses.
Jimenez Lai
#18. The only thing I think about is getting ready for every five days, to go out and get ready for my team.
Ubaldo Jimenez
#19. Mob of beings and things!
A true sadness, because you are really deep
in the soul, as they say, not in time at all!
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#20. 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.
Jimenez Lai
#21. Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.
Jimenez Lai
#22. A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#23. It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.
Jimenez Lai
#24.
Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,
and we are standing now, quietly, in the new life?
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#25. Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#26. Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.
Jimenez Lai
#27. 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.
Jimenez Lai
#28. And life takes place
inside us, with the eternal light
of an ecstatic day
which is going on somewhere else.
It is a beautiful thing,
something true and not yet real, beautiful!
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#29. The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.
Jimenez Lai
#30. I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does.
Jimenez Lai
#31. I feel good with my slider a lot. When I'm far behind the count I use it ... so I feel confident with that.
Ubaldo Jimenez
#32. If the poems
please you more than my lips,
I will never give you another kiss.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#34. Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.
Jimenez Lai
#35. As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and I've built on this based on my own aesthetics, as most do.
Jimenez Lai
#38. Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.
Jimenez Lai
#39. Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the character or progress of the epoch, must terminate with the change brought about by this progress.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#40. To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#41. I see architecture as a form of communication over time.
Jimenez Lai
#43. I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to really output architecture as cultural artifact.
Jimenez Lai
#44. In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints.
Jimenez Lai
#47. I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.
Jimenez Lai
#48. If it's true that God gives you the desires of your heart, then it is imperative that you know your desires and have the courage to communicate them. It is God who places the desires of your life in your heart.
Lisa Jimenez
#49. The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#50. In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not necessarily directed by an economic requirement, but is a diagram based on human actions, selfish or otherwise.
Jimenez Lai
#51. The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.
Jimenez Lai
#52. I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
who remains calm and silent while I talk,
and forgives, gently, when I hate,
who walks where I am not,
who will remain standing when I die.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#53. Serene last evening,
short as life,
end of all that was loved,
I want to be eternal!
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#54. Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities.
Jimenez Lai
#55. The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#56. I would rather be a shark in a small pond with small fishis then a shark with bigger sharks then you
Beto Jimenez
#57. Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental brightness, orange and crimson, of a living being, a rose and an apple, in the physical and ideal fusion of a true and daily paradise.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#58. Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#59. The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.
Jimenez Lai
#60. All I can say is practice, you never know what you might do.
Soraya Jimenez
#61. I would rather be a free animal then a cage animal
Beto Jimenez
#62. The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.
Jimenez Lai
#63. One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds.
Jimenez Lai
#65. Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.
Jimenez Lai
#68.
False joy, because you are merely
in time, as they say, and not in the soul!
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#72. Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#73. The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#74. The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.
Jimenez Lai
#75. I took off petal after petal, as if you were a rose,
in order to see your soul,
and I didn't see it.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#76. That day, that day when I can gaze at the sea
both of us calm
and I, trusting, having poured my whole heart into my Life Work ... when death
black waves!
no longer courts me and I can smile, constantly, at everything because, my bones, there will be so little of myself left to give it.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
#77. Dont trues your shadow because when the sun goes down your shadow leaves you by yourself
Beto Jimenez
#78. One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
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