Jimenez Quotes & Sayings

I took off petal after petal, as if you were a rose,
in order to see your soul,
and I didn't see it. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work. — Jimenez Lai

Time must have covered it over
with roses so
it would not be remembered.
One particular rose,
that has an unexpected magic,
on top of each lonely hour of gold
or shadows,
a place just right to hold painful memories.
So that among the divine
and joyful
climbing roses, scarlet, white,
which would leave no room for the past,
the soul would be
wound into
the body. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects. — Jimenez Lai

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things. — Jimenez Lai

In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints. — Jimenez Lai

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny. — Jimenez Lai

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts. — Jimenez Lai

Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing. — Jimenez Lai

I see architecture as a form of communication over time. — Jimenez Lai

Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental brightness, orange and crimson, of a living being, a rose and an apple, in the physical and ideal fusion of a true and daily paradise. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

I overhear the soldiers whispering. That terrorist looks a bit butch. They laugh. I turn to glare right into their mindless sheep eyes and they stiffen, pretend they don't see me. Miserable fools. What do they know about women? They probably call me butch because of my short hair. They don't know the feminine is the origin of everything. It's ferment, magma, purification, creation. The dawn that will rise when the revolution is complete. — Claudia Salazar Jimenez

Dusk falls. There is nothing gentle
about the sky. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

I say over and over again that I am just standing on the shoulders of so many who have set this path for me, and they may not be seen or recognized or have been given an opportunity to have a voice, but I'm here representing all of those dancers. Dance Theatre of Harlem Virginia Johnson, Tai Jimenez, Lauren Anderson. — Misty Copeland

As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and I've built on this based on my own aesthetics, as most do. — Jimenez Lai

If it's true that God gives you the desires of your heart, then it is imperative that you know your desires and have the courage to communicate them. It is God who places the desires of your life in your heart. — Lisa Jimenez

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,
and we are standing now, quietly, in the new life? — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely! — Juan Ramon Jimenez

If they give you ruled paper, right the other way. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don't have to speak Czech to understand the feeling of the local sensations through architecture. That is a kind of communication that no language can perform. — Jimenez Lai

I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and of seas-, everything, out to the infinite, was filled with a fragrance, enormous and alive. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy. — Jimenez Lai

Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the character or progress of the epoch, must terminate with the change brought about by this progress. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either. — Jimenez Lai

Naked poetry, always mine,
that I have loved my whole life! — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. — Jimenez Lai

When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based; it's too form-driven. Which is kind of shocking for a visual practice, for someone to say something discouraging about a focus on an exploration of aesthetics. — Jimenez Lai

We were to write a short essay on one of the works we read in the course and relate it to our lives. I chose the "Allegory of the Cave" in Plato's Republic. I compared my childhood of growing up in a family of migrant workers with the prisoners who were in a dark cave chained to the floor and facing a blank wall. I wrote that, like the captives, my family and other migrant workers were shackled to the fields day after day, seven days a week, week after week, being paid very little and living in tents or old garages that had dirt floors, no indoor plumbing, no electricity. I described how the daily struggle to simply put food on our tables kept us from breaking the shackles, from turning our lives around. I explained that faith and hope for a better life kept us going. I identified with the prisoner who managed to escape and with his sense of obligation to return to the cave and help others break free. — Francisco Jimenez

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds. — Jimenez Lai

Serene last evening,
short as life,
end of all that was loved,
I want to be eternal! — Juan Ramon Jimenez

It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses. — Jimenez Lai

Secret memories
not on the road
of our other memories! — Juan Ramon Jimenez

One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

The only thing I think about is getting ready for every five days, to go out and get ready for my team. — Ubaldo Jimenez

Since the lovely morning
of that day, we were sweethearts. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses. — Jimenez Lai

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. — Jimenez Lai

What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live. — Jimenez Lai

I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does. — Jimenez Lai

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession. — Jimenez Lai

Silence which in breaking up at dawn
will speak differently. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

If the poems
please you more than my lips,
I will never give you another kiss. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds. — Jimenez Lai

... Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

I would rather be a free animal then a cage animal — Beto Jimenez

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. — Jimenez Lai

I am fascinated by the dailies, what is daily. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Dont trues your shadow because when the sun goes down your shadow leaves you by yourself — Beto Jimenez

we are born and we are already dying — Beto Jimenez

A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

That day, that day when I can gaze at the sea
both of us calm
and I, trusting, having poured my whole heart into my Life Work ... when death
black waves!
no longer courts me and I can smile, constantly, at everything because, my bones, there will be so little of myself left to give it. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession. — Jimenez Lai

Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone. — Ubaldo Jimenez

He couldn't believe that you could look up anyone and seek them out, that all you had to do to prove you weren't an orphan was to open a book and point to your parents. It was unfathomable that a permanent link existed to mothers and fathers and lost mates, that they were forever fixed in type. He flipped through the pages. Donaldson, Jimenez, Smith - all it took was a book, a little book could save you a lifetime of uncertainty and guesswork. Suddenly he hated his small, backward homeland, a land of mysteries and ghosts and mistaken identities. He tore a page from the back of the book and wrote across the top: Alive and Well in North Korea. Below this he wrote the names of all the people he'd helped kidnap. Next to Mayumi Nota, the girl from the pier, he placed a star of exception. — Adam Johnson

The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better. — Jimenez Lai

Dreaming is the soul's fuel...and it is not fossil — Jennifer Jimenez

The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth! — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Night goes away, a black bull
body heavy with mourning and fear and mystery
it has been bellowing horribly, monstrously,
in genuine fear of all the dead;
and day arrives, a young child
who wants trust, and love, and jokes,
a child who somewhere
far away, in secret places
where what ends meets what is starting,
has been playing a moment
on some meadow or other
of light and darkness
with the bull who is running away ... — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Love, you are eternal like springtime. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

My style for the moment is modern mystic priestess. — Elisa Jimenez

Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over. — Jimenez Lai

I feel good with my slider a lot. When I'm far behind the count I use it ... so I feel confident with that. — Ubaldo Jimenez

Mob of beings and things!
A true sadness, because you are really deep
in the soul, as they say, not in time at all! — Juan Ramon Jimenez

All I can say is practice, you never know what you might do. — Soraya Jimenez

In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not necessarily directed by an economic requirement, but is a diagram based on human actions, selfish or otherwise. — Jimenez Lai

My only two weapons: time and silence. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

False joy, because you are merely
in time, as they say, and not in the soul! — Juan Ramon Jimenez

the internet is stronger then the gun — Beto Jimenez

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities. — Jimenez Lai

I would rather be a shark in a small pond with small fishis then a shark with bigger sharks then you — Beto Jimenez

And life takes place
inside us, with the eternal light
of an ecstatic day
which is going on somewhere else.
It is a beautiful thing,
something true and not yet real, beautiful! — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Who knows what is going on on the other side of each hour? — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Brave is not saying I have no fear. It's being terrified and still moving forward. — Elisa Jimenez

I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
who remains calm and silent while I talk,
and forgives, gently, when I hate,
who walks where I am not,
who will remain standing when I die. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to really output architecture as cultural artifact. — Jimenez Lai