Quotes About Jencks

#1. Charles Jencks is the most notable landscape and garden designer to carry forward the 3500 BCE-1800CE landscape and garden design agenda.

Tom Turner

#2. People sometimes are under the impression that finding their property corners should cost as much as changing their oil or blowing out their sprinklers. What they don't realize is that land surveyors are required to stand behind their work for the rest of their lives.

Mark Mason

#3. Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

Charles Jencks

#4. It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

Charles Jencks

#5. I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

Charles Jencks

#6. I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

Pele

#7. Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

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#8. Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

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#9. Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.

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#10. In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

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#11. Putin learned from reading the William King and David Cleland textbook in the 1980s and 1990s, planning for uncertainty is the most important element of strategy.

Clifford G. Gaddy

#12. What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

Benjamin Disraeli

#13. Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

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#14. A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

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#15. The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.

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#16. Our Christian enthusiasts are evidently too stupid, as well as too insecure, to appreciate this. A revealing mark of their insecurity is their rage when public places are not annually given over to religious symbolism, and now, their fresh rage when palaces of private consumption do not follow suit.

Christopher Hitchens

#17. The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.

Joan Walsh Anglund

#18. You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.

Charles Jencks

#19. I'm all for Hillary Clinton. I want her to avoid the barbs of women who hate women who work. But I'm known as a Republican in Washington. I'm probably the last person she'd call.

Letitia Baldrige

#20. We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

Oliver Tambo

#21. The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

Kathryn Schulz

#22. I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.

Charles Jencks

#23. The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

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#24. All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

Rudolf Steiner

#26. If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

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#27. I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

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#28. Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

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#29. What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

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#30. Europe has been in my bones.

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#31. The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

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#32. Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.

Charles Jencks

#33. You give loyalty, you'll get it back.

Tommy Lasorda

#34. I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

Charles Jencks

#35. What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

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#36. What we share as introverts is the love of ideas and the desire to explore them with minimal interruption. We want and need input, but we'd rather get it through reading, research, and rich conversation than through unfiltered talk.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#37. A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.

Charles Jencks