Venturi Quotes & Sayings

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings. — Martin Filler

Main Street is almost alright. — Robert Venturi

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. — Robert Venturi

The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66. — Robert Venturi

Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward. — Ken Venturi

You can't make good scores happen. You've got to let it happen. — Ken Venturi

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered. — Ken Venturi

As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered ... As an artist, I frankly write about what I like in architecture: complexity and contradiction. From what we find we like-what we are easily attracted to-we can learn much of what we really are. — Robert Venturi

In rich detail, Ken told us that on the second hole of the opening round, Hogan got stuck while standing over a putt. Hogan had the yips. "I can't take it back, Ken," Hogan said. "Nobody gives a shit, Ben," Ken said back. That bit of wise-guy humor was evidently all Hogan needed to hear: At age fifty-three and playing barely any tournament golf, he finished twelfth. Venturi finished three shots behind. Palmer was leading by seven with nine holes left and lost to Billy Casper in a playoff. Ken — Michael Bamberger

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.' — Ken Venturi

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once. — Ken Venturi

I couldn't say my own name when I was 12. — Ken Venturi

I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. — Ken Venturi

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. — Ken Venturi

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building. — Robert Venturi

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. — Robert Venturi

After you have the basics down it's all mental. — Ken Venturi

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure. — Ken Venturi

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of. — Ken Venturi

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively. — Ken Venturi

My father was a man of few words. — Ken Venturi

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories. — Ken Venturi

Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen. — Ken Venturi

Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses. — Ken Venturi

The only times you touch the ball with your hand are when you tee it up and when you pick it out of the cup. The hell with television towers and cables and burrowing animals and the thousand and one things that are referred to as 'not part of the golf course'. If you hit the ball off the fairway, you play it from there. — Ken Venturi

People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer. — Ken Venturi

My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented. — Ken Venturi

When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful. — Ken Venturi

I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone. — Ken Venturi

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty. — Robert Venturi