Toyo Quotes & Sayings

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority. — Thomas B. Macaulay

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

Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced. — Osho

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze. — Michael Stipe

I told him that without me he wouldn't be able to find his arse with his two hands, — Bill Carson

And when the sea swallowed up the shore and the waves heaved under the ship and the blue horizon encircled us, I immediately felt an overwhelming intimacy with the sea. I knew this green, infinite giant, as though it were roving back and forth within my ribs. The whole of the journey I savored that feeling of being nowhere, alone, before and behind me either eternity or nothingness. — Tayeb Salih

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

stayed friends because they could keep each other's secrets. Now, — Katherine Boo

Truly mature people are so detached from others that they can love their enemies, bless those who curse them, do good to those who hate them, and pray for those who despitefully use and persecute them. (See Matthew 5:44.) — Kevin FitzMaurice

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

There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders. — Lois Greiman

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

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

Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive. — Warren Zevon

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

When things go wrong, your best recovery effort is required. But don't just provide the missing piece (that's the recovery), also provide uniquely personal assistance (that's the memorable effort). — Ron Kaufman

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

I quite like it when you're working with people and you only get to know them through the scenes that you're doing together. — Christian Bale