Alvar Aalto Quotes

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

Alvar Aalto

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: finnish
  • Birth: February 3, 1898 - May 11, 1976

Topics

WorkGoodSimpleManHarmonyStreet

A lot of the people I know connect through working. We're all so ambitious. Sometimes my friends will say, 'I want to hang out with you.' And I just go, 'Well, let's do a project together.' That's the only way I can.

Jill Soloway

TogetherPeopleFriendsYouI Can

I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.

Jennifer Egan

ThinkDangerousCensorshipKindMost

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

Maya Angelou

PeopleLanguageAdmireUnderstand

The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it.

Steve Jurvetson

TechnologyTrustYouMoreCloser

I'm an artist with a message, and my message is more for society, casting the mirror onto them and saying, 'Hey, this is what we look like, what are we going to do about it, how are we going to use what we've been through to aid where we're going.'

Trai Byers

MirrorSocietySayingArtistLook

Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.

Rosa Luxemburg

DepressionSilenceGovernmentSociety

What I'm trying to do is make photographs that are universally understood... that cross cultural lines. I want my photographs to be about the basic emotions and feelings that we all experience.

Mary Ellen Mark

ExperienceTryingFeelingsEmotions

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Jayson Blair

YouTruePainfulSomethingVery

Putin is not a politician. Putin is a KGB agent. And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.

Svetlana Alexievich

WhateverInvolvedPoliticianHeKGB

Puff Daddy is a great party thrower. He goes down in the history books.

Rick Ross

HistoryGreatDownPartyDaddyHe

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

Ricky Jay

ThinkKnowWantActorDirectorFilm

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

Rene Redzepi

RespectMomentLearnYouGoSoil

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