Top 21 Toyo Ito Quotes
#1. Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
Horace Mann
#2. Our life comes in segments, and we have to understand that we can have it all if we're not trying to do it all at once.
Madeleine Albright
#3. I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.
Toyo Ito
#4. This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#5. The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.
Jerry Only
#6. Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.
Toyo Ito
#7. I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.
Toyo Ito
#8. Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.
William Strunk Jr.
#9. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not." I
Sherman Alexie
#10. I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies.
Toyo Ito
#11. I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.
Toyo Ito
#12. Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.
Toyo Ito
#13. There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.
Toyo Ito
#14. We have to base architecture on the environment.
Toyo Ito
#16. There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bills from the Koi hotel. When I was remodeling the Koi pond, the Koi had to go to the Koi hotel. They ended up staying there for 13 months and I never asked what the bill was.
Sam Simon
#17. I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings
Toyo Ito
#18. People are like germs, only bigger. That bit of wisdom has proven true, for the most part. Humans are little more than highly evolved bacteria, leeches on a rotting ball of clay. It's depressing, I know.
Mike Duran
#19. Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
William Pitt
#20. The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.
Toyo Ito
#21. Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool projects.
David Hayter
