Mark Wigley quotes

“Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.”
-- Mark Wigley

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“In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.”

Source : Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1853). “The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott”, p.9

“Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.”

“In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.”

Source : Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 1969.

“Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.”

“Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...”

“In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.”

Source : "bstract Expressionism Creators and Critics". Book edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York, 1990.

“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art")". Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

“Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.”

“The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!”