Peter Zumthor Architect Quotes & Sayings

This morning look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself you're going to have a great and positive day, you will see the difference. — Christopher J. Gambino

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist. — Peter Zumthor

Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money. — Harold E. Varmus

I'm a passionate architect ... I do not work for money — Peter Zumthor

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. — Robert Benchley

I'll go anywhere and do anything with you. You're my home. My family.'
'I love you,' she said, kissing me once.
We fell asleep, still in our clothes, her head on my heart. — Chelsea M. Cameron

Lesson number one: "Sexual orientation is who you go to bed with," he told Spack. "Gender identity is who you go to bed as. — Amy Ellis Nutt

Valentine's Day is a day to be expressive and grateful to the one you love. - James Stuart Bell - — Gary Chapman

When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom. — Ramakrishna

Some paintings become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely to be found a few appreciative eyes.
I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all, except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush, and it is the same river who, before I can bring my friends to view his work, erases it forever from human view. After that it exists only in my mind's eye.
Like other artists, my river is temperamental; there is no predicting when the mood to paint will come upon him, or how long it will last. But in midsummer, when the great white fleets cruise the sky for day after flawless day, it is worth strolling down to the sandbars just to see whether he has been at work. — Aldo Leopold

Anyway, I started bitching one night before the broadcast. Seymour'd told me to shine my shoes just as I was going out the door with Waker. I was furious. The studio audience were all morons, the announcer was a moron, the sponsors were morons, and I just damn well wasn't going to shine my shoes for them, I told Seymour. I said they couldn't see them anyway, where we sat. He said to shine them anyway. He said to shine them for the Fat Lady. — J.D. Salinger

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. — Mitch Albom