Eileen Gray quotes

Eileen Gray quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“To create, one must first question everything.”
-- Eileen Gray

#Firsts Quotes #Architect Quotes
“A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.”
-- Eileen Gray

#Spiritual Quotes #Men Quotes #House Quotes
“The future projects light, the past only clouds”
-- Eileen Gray

#Past Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Light Quotes
“We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.”
-- Eileen Gray

#Artist Quotes

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”
“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”
“Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.”
“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”
“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”

Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U
“Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.”
“That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 25, 2013
“The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.”

Source : "The Dirt on Aaron Paul". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. July 12, 2012.
“You are the architect of your own loneliness.”

Source : Henry Thomas Hamblin (2009). “The Power of Thought”, p.4, The Floating Press
“But then architects don't build their own houses.”

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