Rietveld Projects Quotes & Sayings

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education. — Thomas Bulfinch

the mind itself suggests to itself many perverted, vicious forms of pleasure? - in the first place arrogance, excessive self-esteem, swaggering precedence over other men, a shortsighted, nay, a blind devotion to his own interests, dissolute luxury, excessive delight springing from the most trifling and childish causes, and also talkativeness, pride that takes a pleasure in insulting others, sloth, and the decay of a dull mind which goes to sleep over itself. — Seneca.

Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality. That's where your freedom is, that's where all your power is. That's when you see how you can become a deliberate creator of your life. And when you are a deliberate creator of your life, and you use this law of attraction, you will have a life that is beyond what you can possibly imagine right now. — Marci Shimoff

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. — Gustave Flaubert

Globalism has less leeway for a poor country's brilliant sons. — Molly Crabapple

I haven't yet made clothes that I have been totally satisfied with, and maybe I never will. — Rei Kawakubo