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rather than direct and clear. I am for messy vitality over obvious unity. I include the non sequiteur and proclaim the duality... I prefer "both-and" to "either-or," black and white and sometimes gray, to black and white. A valid architecture evokes many levels of meaning and combinations of focus..."

from a review of "Learning from Las Vegas" by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Igenour - by Ada Louise Huxtable. New York Review of Books - Oct 18. 73

You've got to have a new [illegible] at the end of every street. - Walt Disney

In high art and pure science detail is everything.

Nabakov

We are made perfect not by what we do, but by what happens to us.

Meister Eckhardt

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Courbet's aesthetic ideal is a billiard ball.

-Manet

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"It is [illegible] because as in most of Stravinsky's music from the last twenty-five years, its style is its subject. And music-lovers brought up on the Romantic tradition of music, in which the style is supposed to derive from the subject, are confused by any other approach to the art. Nevertheless, the use of style as subject, the evocation of past periods, the modernistic usage of ancestral furniture and formulas, is as vigorous a practice in contemporary music as it is in contemporary theater, contemporary architecture and decoration."

Virgil Thomson. March 23. 1944 from "Music Reviewed"

Was this always so with artists. I think so but not to the degree certainly that it has become a major preoccupation with artists today. It seems to me most who use style as subject achieve only shallow results. Yet, every once in a while someone, like Stravinsky, makes it work.

Media has played the most important role in this, the color of representation, the phonographic record, the late 1933 movie on television, etc. has made the