May Toyo Quotes & Sayings

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works. — Toyo Ito

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. — Toyo Ito

You need me as much as I need you. That makes us equal partners in my book.
Well, your book is just wrong. — Karen Marie Moning

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city. — Toyo Ito

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it. — Mason Cooley

There are clothes which keep rejuvenating themselves instead of getting worn out. — Roberto Juarroz

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable. — Toyo Ito

Today, we cannot produce machines that fly the same as UFOs do. They are flying by means of artificial fields of Gravity. This would explain the sudden changes of directions. This hypothesis would also explain the piling-up of these discs into a cylindrical or cigar-shaped mothership upon leaving the Earth. — Hermann Oberth

They don't talk to me much; I don't feel like i know them." Simon said.
You're not supposed to. It's a members-only club."
Simon accepted this. "So Akira is the angry one, Kisho is the crazy one, Toyo is the old fart ... — Jason Hightman

I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.' — Hannibal Buress

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever. — Toyo Ito

We have to base architecture on the environment. — Toyo Ito

Everything you need is within reach, the key is whose going to reach — Jim Rohn

Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games. — Toyo Ito

I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies. — Toyo Ito

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings — Toyo Ito

The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists. — Toyo Ito