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last updated: November 28, 2023

“Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.”
-- James Polshek

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“I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there.”
-- James Polshek

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“I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.”
-- James Polshek

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“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”
“Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.”
“The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.”
“When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.”
“Forgetting about our mistakes and our wounds isn't enough to make them disappear.”
“There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry.”
“You can't get a solution if you won't talk to the people that have the problem. You can't ever have healing if the patient is left out of the operation room.”
“Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.”
“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”
“The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.”

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