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Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism? – Stephen Bayley

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I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive. – Stephen Bayley

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Travel
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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny mans ability to adapt to changing circumstances. – Stephen Bayley

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Tradition
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Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers – Stephen Bayley

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design
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When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. – Colleen C. Barrett

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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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architecture

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become ones entire life. – Arne Jacobsen

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. – Federico Garcia Lorca

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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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Dont fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine. – Camille Claudel

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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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