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Thom Mayne

"So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course."

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"So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course."

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A.E. Samaan

"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."

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A.E. Samaan

"Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts."

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A.E. Samaan

"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."

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A.E. Samaan

"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."

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A.E. Samaan

"One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee."

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A.E. Samaan

"Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas."

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A.E. Samaan

"Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea."

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A.E. Samaan

"The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent."

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A.E. Samaan

"In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails."

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Thom Mayne
"It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world."

Art

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Thom Mayne
"Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art."

Architecture

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Thom Mayne
"I've been such an outsider my whole life."

Life

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Thom Mayne
"The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art."

Art

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Thom Mayne
"Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down."

Work

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Thom Mayne
"For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid."

Work

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Thom Mayne
"The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in."

Ideas

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Thom Mayne
"We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated."

Development

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Thom Mayne
"You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us."

Architecture

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Thom Mayne
"Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work."

Nature

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