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Thom Mayne

"So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture."

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"So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture."

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Amber Hurdle

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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Amber Hurdle

"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

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Amber Hurdle

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

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Amber Hurdle

"Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms."

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Amber Hurdle

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

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Amber Hurdle

"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."

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Amber Hurdle

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

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Amber Hurdle

"And it seemed at last that there were two musics progressing at one time before the seat of IlAovatar, and they were utterly at variance. The one was deep and wide ad beautiful, but slow and blended with an immeasurable sorrow from which its beauty chiefly came."

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Amber Hurdle

"Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice."

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Amber Hurdle

"One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin."

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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."

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Thom Mayne
"So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position."

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Thom Mayne
"So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture."

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Thom Mayne
"I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table."

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

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Thom Mayne
"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."

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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."

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Thom Mayne
"The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value."

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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."

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

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