Kenzo Quotes

#1. We would none of us get much done if we allowed such things to rule our actions.

Christine Pope

#2. In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

Kenzo Tange

#3. Imagine what a focused human being could do in a day to make a difference in this world.

Caroline Myss

#4. Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Kenzo Tange

#5. Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

Kenzo Tange

#6. Kenzo glances up from his chopping. "You look good enough to eat."
"Don't tell that to Stu's sleepwalkers," I say.

Carolyn Crane

#7. Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Kenzo Tange

#8. This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest ... She was free, for love liberates.

Paulo Coelho

#9. I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon.

Gillian Jacobs

#10. Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing.

Adrian Lyne

#11. I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence, the relationship between which has a decisive effect on contemporary cultural forms and social structure.

Kenzo Tange

#12. Compassion nourishes the wilted heart.

Jana Fayne Kolpen

#13. We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.

Kenzo Tange

#14. But I am influenced by the world that says I influence it. The world I live in is my influence.

Kenzo Takada

#15. I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission ... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

Kenzo Tange

#16. Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

Kenzo Tange

#17. So far Kenzo had managed to avoid being introduced to any of these walking wraiths, but he had a feeling that if he ever did meet his own doppel, he would gang away in the opposite direction as fast as possible.

Akimitsu Takagi

#18. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Kenzo Tange

#19. I was raised by all women. I had no men in my life; it was my mom, my sister, and my grandmother. I've never identified as a man. I've always either felt like a boy or something else. I feel really uncomfortable thinking that, technically, I'm supposed to be a man, because I don't feel like one.

Zachary Cole Smith

#20. Fashion is like eating. You shoudn't stick with the same menu.

Kenzo Takada

#21. I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

Kenzo Tange

#22. Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

Kenzo Tange

#23. In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.

Kenzo Tange

#24. Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical

Kenzo Tange

#25. As a child, she'd been a great reader, finding the ultimate escape within the pages of a story. She learned that opening a book was like opening a set of double doors - the next step would take her inside to Neverland or Nod, Sunnybrook Farm or Mulberry Street.

Susan Wiggs

#26. I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.

Kenzo Tange

#27. Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Kenzo Tange

#28. In civilised life domestic hatred usually expresses itself by saying things which would appear quite harmless on paper (the words are not offensive) but in such a voice, or at such a moment, that they are not far short of a blow in the face.

C.S. Lewis