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"It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way."
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"My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly."
"When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy."
"A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning."
"I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes."
"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
"The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers."
"If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point."
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"At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it."
"The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort."
"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."
"Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art."
"The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people."
"The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present."
"Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art."
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