Will Alsop quotes

Will Alsop quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I don't believe in the word 'inspiration', you just have to do it.”
-- Will Alsop

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“Beauty is a fact, and it can change with time. Something ugly in the morning can become beautiful in the evening.”
-- Will Alsop

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“I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.”
“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”
“I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.”
“I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.”
“I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.”
“Chop your own path. Get off the car track”
“I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.”
“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.”
“It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.”

Source : "Aalto in Finland" by R.W. Apple, Jr., www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.
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