Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
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Italian - Architect
September 14, 1937
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In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.
A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.
As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.
Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.
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