Zumthor Buildings Quotes & Sayings

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music ... — Grant Evans

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. — Peter Zumthor

LOVE Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true. In logotherapy, — Viktor E. Frankl

We run away from one thing into the other and destroy ourselves in the process, he said. We just simply go away until we have given up, so he said. Preference — Thomas Bernhard

The only limit to success is your own imagination. — Shonda Rhimes

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling. — Peter Zumthor

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you. — Kami Garcia

How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new! — Jacob Grimm

I have not seen "Batman v Superman," unfortunately. It hasn't been on the plane, as I've been flying a lot. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Our society will always remain an unstable and explosive compound as long as political power is vested in the masses and economic power in the classes. In the end one of these powers will rule. Either the plutocracy will buy up the democracy, or the democracy will vote away the plutocracy. — Irving Fisher

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas. — Peter Zumthor

Spread love whenever you go ... — Mother Teresa

They carry their past in them as though safekeeping it for someone else. Very often they look at me and say, poor thing. They say I have lost a mother and am alone in the world. They feel compassion for me, for a loss that comes to all; they disregard their own extraordinary suffering. — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction. — Peter Zumthor

You are here." Torin would have bet her pension that the graffiti scrawled next to it in a script she didn't recognize said, "And your luggage is in Antares," or a variation thereof. — Tanya Huff

Construction is the art of making a meaningful whole out of many parts. Buildings are witnesses to the human ability to construct concrete things. I believe that the real core of all architectural work lies in the act of construction. At the point in time concrete materials are assembled and erected, the architecture we have been looking for becomes part of the real world. — Peter Zumthor

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. — Peter Zumthor

If I'm such a bloody hero, why am I alone? — Kerrelyn Sparks

The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange. — Peter Zumthor

I always live in the present. I don't know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing. — Fernando Pessoa