top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Influence quotes
"Power and glory are two dialectic energies working in common ground. Taking a glimpse of the meandering under swell of glory in the shade of power, can be very inspiring and illuminating. ['The power and the glory']"
"Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!"
"To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!"
"When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!"
"Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!"
"Influence is when you are not the one talking and yet your words fill the room, when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere."
"We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today."
"I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things."
Explore more quotes by Rem Koolhaas
"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."
"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."
"The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt."
"The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox."
"When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated."
"The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event."
"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."
bottom of page