top of page
Quote_1.png
Thom Mayne

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

Standard 
 Customized
"I've been such an outsider my whole life."

Exlpore more Life quotes

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

Explore more quotes by Thom Mayne

Quote_1.png
Thom Mayne
"Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down."
Quote_1.png
Thom Mayne
"I've been such an outsider my whole life."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Thom Mayne
"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."
Quote_1.png
Thom Mayne
"For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid."
bottom of page