Lebbeus Quotes

#1. A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

Lebbeus Woods

#2. I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

Romola Garai

#3. I'm not interested in living in a fantasy world ... All my work is still meant to evoke real architectural spaces. But what interests me is what the world would be like if we were free of conventional limits. Maybe I can show what could happen if we lived by a different set of rules.

Lebbeus Woods

#4. Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.

Ramakrishna

#5. I remember what a thrill it was to go from the back streets of Birmingham to Madison Square Garden in New York ... it's like playing on Mars. You can't buy that.

Ozzy Osbourne

#6. You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's one and only.

Anne Frank

#7. I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing an architectural action, you actually are making a transformation in the social fabric and in the political fabric. Architecture becomes an instigator.

Lebbeus Woods

#8. What was the use of knowing? If the thing was true, it was terrible.

Oscar Wilde

#9. To give [the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba] even covert support is on a par with the hypocrisy and cynicism for which the United States is constantly denouncing the Soviet Union in the United Nations and elsewhere. This point will not be lost on the rest of the world, nor on our own consciences.

J. William Fulbright

#10. The one who was never a sinner became (through God's imputation) completely identified with sin, our sin. He was completely identified with an innumerable host of sins, took them all upon himself, closed his arms upon them in an obedient embrace, and died. That is why there is no condemnation.

Douglas Wilson

#11. Perception shows how deep one can understand an issue or a phenomenon, the mental strength.

Pearl Zhu

#12. The invigorating scent of the sea was nectar to her wearied body, the immensity of the lonely cliffs was silent and dreamlike. Her brain only remained conscious of its ceaseless, its intolerable torture of uncertainty.

Emmuska Orczy

#13. The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity ...

Emil Cioran

#14. To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.

Albert Camus

#15. If there's going to be another movement, another direction in architecture, it has to engage people differently. Other than saying, here, look at this, isn't this amazing? It has to interactively involve them other than as spectators ... it has to engage them as creators.

Lebbeus Woods

#16. Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

Lebbeus Woods

#17. Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

Lebbeus Woods

#18. Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

Lebbeus Woods

#19. Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

Lebbeus Woods

#20. There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now.

Eckhart Tolle

#21. Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

Lebbeus Woods