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Thom Mayne

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

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Brennan Manning

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

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Brennan Manning

"Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?"

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Brennan Manning

"You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change."

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Brennan Manning

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

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Brennan Manning

"The quality of your ideas 'your actual thoughts' determines your success more than you think."

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Brennan Manning

"Most of the people will try to prove your right ideas as wrong, so share your ideas carefully or not at all."

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Brennan Manning

"Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures."

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Brennan Manning

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

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Brennan Manning

"It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date."

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Brennan Manning

"There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line."

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Thom Mayne
"But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour."

Architecture

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

Ideas

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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."

Art

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

Work

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

Life

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

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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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