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Charles Jencks Quotes

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people Picture Quote #1

It’s a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm Picture Quote #1

Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe? Picture Quote #1

You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon’s evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that’s very exciting Picture Quote #1

I’ve been a lucky man. I’ve only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995 Picture Quote #1

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational Picture Quote #1

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If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it’s similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity Picture Quote #1

I was already writing about the idea of a ‘multiverse’ in the 1970s, though I might have called it the ‘pluriverse.’ How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil Picture Quote #1

A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases Picture Quote #1

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: ‘Big Bang,’ ‘selfish gene’ and so on. Richard Dawkins’ selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the ‘altruistic gene,’ but he’d never have sold as many books with a title like that Picture Quote #1

I’d been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called ‘Not Sculpture Park,’ because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down Picture Quote #1

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique Picture Quote #1

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I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live Picture Quote #1

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe? Picture Quote #1

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way Picture Quote #1

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What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people (Charles Jencks Quotes) It’s a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm (Charles Jencks Quotes) Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe? (Charles Jencks Quotes) You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon’s evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that’s very exciting (Charles Jencks Quotes) I’ve been a lucky man. I’ve only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995 (Charles Jencks Quotes) I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational (Charles Jencks Quotes) If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it’s similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity (Charles Jencks Quotes) I was already writing about the idea of a ‘multiverse’ in the 1970s, though I might have called it the ‘pluriverse.’ How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil (Charles Jencks Quotes) A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases (Charles Jencks Quotes) Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: ‘Big Bang,’ ‘selfish gene’ and so on. Richard Dawkins’ selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the ‘altruistic gene,’ but he’d never have sold as many books with a title like that (Charles Jencks Quotes) I’d been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called ‘Not Sculpture Park,’ because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down (Charles Jencks Quotes) In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique (Charles Jencks Quotes) I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live (Charles Jencks Quotes) What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe? (Charles Jencks Quotes) The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way (Charles Jencks Quotes)