Quote by Thom Mayne
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it want

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

Other quotes by 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. – Thom Mayne

Category:
architecture
Read Quote

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

Category:
Society
Read Quote

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

Category:
architecture
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Attitude
category

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Category:
Attitude

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that its much more partisan and much more divided. – Leon Panetta

Category:
Attitude

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades. – Florence Kelley

Category:
Attitude

The music is first and foremost everything – no egos, no attitude, nothing – its about the music. – Big Boi

Category:
Attitude

Random Quotes

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

Category:
Photography

Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay. – Aishwarya Rai

Category:
movies

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace. – Paul Robeson

Category:
Peace

Punctuality is the politeness of kings. – Louis XVIII

Category:
Punctuality