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The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
There isn't any one material that's mine. It all depends on the context. For example, I did a house that had the most exquisite marble applications. That sounds ostentatious, but it wasn't, given the context. The color white I subscribe to extensively. I love thinking about color, but I often go with white.
To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.
What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.
When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.
When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.
As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath.
Growing up in eastern Germany, I knew of Superman, but he didn't resonate emotionally with me.
I think of Superman as the ultimate vanilla hero. He's this perfect refugee, this perfect immigrant from another planet who embodies the American dream.
I wanted to play the piano, but my fingers weren't long enough, so I took up the guitar.
It never really worked out for me in my own country. They said, 'You're not famous enough for the lead roles, and you're too present for the supporting roles - you'd overpower the lead.'
Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.
Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art.
Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.
Buying art is not understanding art.
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.
I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
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Ada Louise Huxtable
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