Kenzo Quotes & Sayings

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality. — Kenzo Tange

We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality. — Kenzo Tange

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter. — Kenzo Tange

Kenzo glances up from his chopping. "You look good enough to eat."
"Don't tell that to Stu's sleepwalkers," I say. — Carolyn Crane

Each city should have its own type of restaurant. — Marcus Samuelsson

From personal experience, Kenzo knew about the state of racial equality in America. It was sound in theory, but not in practice. It was a glorious dream, but just a dream. It would never work. It had never worked
not anywhere, not anytime in history
and the US was the only country foolish and hypocritical enough to try. — Don Lee

If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of gynecology and urology should contain a chapter on prostitution; textbooks of physiology, a chapter on perversion; textbooks of genetics, a chapter on the racial inferiority of Jews and Negroes. — Thomas Szasz

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself. — Kenzo Tange

But I am influenced by the world that says I influence it. The world I live in is my influence. — Kenzo Takada

Fashion is like eating. You shoudn't stick with the same menu. — Kenzo Takada

They're power-hungry, the mundane said of the magical people. They're immoral, people said, and they're scary. Playing with the dark arts could plunge me into evil. I'd be pulled toward depravity. Blasphemy would begin to seem like truth, bad like good, God like Satan. It had happened to people through the centuries, they said. And they were right. All that did happen. — Christine Wicker

By creating bureaucracies, we put civil servants in a position to make decisions based on abstract and theoretical matters, with the illusion that they will be making them in a rational, accountable way. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. — Kenzo Tange

I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon. — Gillian Jacobs

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. — Kenzo Tange

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. — Kenzo Tange

If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic. — Dalai Lama

In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society. — Kenzo Tange

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions. — Kenzo Tange

So far Kenzo had managed to avoid being introduced to any of these walking wraiths, but he had a feeling that if he ever did meet his own doppel, he would gang away in the opposite direction as fast as possible. — Akimitsu Takagi

It was such a dismal time in Japan. It almost seemed as if they were dying as a people, their economy in tatters, the population dwindling, the remaining citizens isolated and adrift. Had they been wrong about everything? Kenzo wondered. The power of consensus and obligation, the imperatives of racial purity and harmony? — Don Lee

You do get the pregnant mush-brain ... you know what it's like? It's like getting stoned. — Kate Hudson

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s. — Kenzo Tange

I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence, the relationship between which has a decisive effect on contemporary cultural forms and social structure. — Kenzo Tange

He wasn't sure what was worse: leaving or the anticipation of leaving. — Maggie Stiefvater

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity. — Kenzo Tange

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical — Kenzo Tange

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. — Kenzo Tange

I'll invest my money in people. — Will Keith Kellogg

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission ... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. — Kenzo Tange