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Thom Mayne

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

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Donna Grant

"The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born."

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Donna Grant

"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say."

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Donna Grant

"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

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Donna Grant

"There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

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

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

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

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

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Thom Mayne
"Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people."

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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."

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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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Thom Mayne
"I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more."

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