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Tadao Ando

"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space."

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Donna Grant

"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

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Donna Grant

"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."

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Donna Grant

"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."

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Donna Grant

"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving."

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Donna Grant

"Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail."

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Donna Grant

"If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings."

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Donna Grant

"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it."

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Donna Grant

"It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution."

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Donna Grant

"Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be."

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Donna Grant

"I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world."

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Tadao Ando
"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space."

Design

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Tadao Ando
"My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process."

Thinking

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Tadao Ando
"You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see."

Knowledge

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Tadao Ando
"When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together."

Work

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Tadao Ando
"I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before."

Leader

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Tadao Ando
"The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture."

Architecture

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Tadao Ando
"You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you."

Will

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Tadao Ando
"At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage."

Time

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Tadao Ando
"When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan."

Nature

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Tadao Ando
"People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect."

Beauty

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