Ass Quotes - Page 16

• When we build, let us think that we build forever.

  John Ruskin

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

  Seven Lamps of Architecture "The Lamp of Memory" sec. 10 (1849)

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• As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

  Norman Foster

  Badass, Past, Bad Ass

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• There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

  David Chipperfield

  Badass, Mean, Bad Ass

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• Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Badass, Bad Ass, Important

  "The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer". Book by Oscar Niemeyer, 1998.

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• The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

  El Lissitzky

  Badass, Inspiration, Bad Ass

  El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

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• In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.

  Oskar Schlemmer

  Badass, Inspiration, Simple

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• The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

  Honore de Balzac

  Badass, Bad Ass, Events

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• Form ever follows function.

  Louis Sullivan

  Badass, Bad Ass, Design

  'The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered' (1896)

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Badass, Bad Ass, Reality

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• Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

  Maya Lin

  Badass, Bad Ass, Architecture

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• The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

  Mario Botta

  Badass, Inspiration, Bad Ass

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• Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

  What We Live By (1932) pt. 2, ch. 12

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• It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

  Michelangelo

  Badass, Bad Ass, Men

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, E. H. Ramsden (1963). “The Letters of Michelangelo”, p.129, Stanford University Press

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• The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

  Frank Stella

  Badass, Real, Bad Ass

  Frank Stella, Bonnie Clearwater (2000). “Frank Stella at 2000”, Museum of Contemporary Art

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• Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

  Bruno Zevi

  Art, Badass, Dark

  Bruno Zevi (1957). “Architecture as space: how to look at architecture”

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• Potential is synonymous with getting your ass kicked.

  Kevin Constantine

  Hockey, Nhl

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• Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

  Tom Robbins

  Meditation, Ego, Mind

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• I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Parents have to take better control.

  Charles Barkley

  Mom, Sports, Growing Up

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• Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens.

  Drake

  Success, Wall, Humble

  Song: Asthma Team Freestyle

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• Soon as we get the ass, we start callin em hoes.

  Drake

  Humble, Hoe, Ems

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• Spendin all the money I just worked my ass off for doing things that I won't regret.

  Drake

  Inspirational, Life, Money

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• Where the hell do you put the bayonet?

  Chesty Puller

  Bad Ass, Bayonets, Hell

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• That all you got, George?

  Muhammad Ali

  Bad Ass

  "'There Will Never Be Another': George Foreman Remembers Muhammad Ali". "All Things Considered" with Mary Louise Kelly, www.npr.org. June 4, 2016.

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• I'm just as famous as my mentor... but that's still the boss don't get sent for

  Drake

  Bad Ass, Boss, Mentor

  Song: Tuscan Leather, 2013

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