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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.

- Thom Mayne

Quotes Architecture Quotes First Quotes Experience Quotes Effect Quotes Space Quotes

Published on: January 13, 2025 07:00 AM

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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.

- Thom Mayne

Quotes Public Quotes Art Quotes World Quotes Reason Quotes

Published on: January 12, 2025 09:10 PM

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

- Thom Mayne

Quotes Ideas Quotes Multiplicity Quotes

Published on: December 18, 2024 02:07 PM

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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.

- Thom Mayne

Quotes Ideas Quotes Existence Quotes

Published on: December 10, 2024 01:15 PM

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Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

- Thom Mayne

Quotes Work Quotes Nature Quotes Reality Quotes

Published on: December 9, 2024 09:43 PM

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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.

- Thom Mayne

Quotes Work Quotes Art Quotes Culture Quotes Risk Quotes Development Quotes

Published on: December 2, 2024 08:55 PM

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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.

- Thom Mayne

Quotes Architecture Quotes Idea Quotes Value Quotes Walking Quotes

Published on: November 30, 2024 04:17 PM

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We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

- Thom Mayne

Quotes Development Quotes Meaning Quotes

Published on: November 4, 2024 01:29 AM

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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.

- Thom Mayne

Quotes Time Quotes Public Quotes Art Quotes Attitude Quotes Media Quotes

Published on: October 16, 2024 09:36 PM

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

- Thom Mayne

Quotes Art Quotes Ignorance Quotes Society Quotes Ideas Quotes

Published on: October 15, 2024 02:15 PM

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