Curtis W. Fentress quotes

“A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.”
-- Curtis W. Fentress

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“People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.”
-- Curtis W. Fentress

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“There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults”
-- Curtis W. Fentress

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“Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be”
-- Curtis W. Fentress

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“It takes a great client to create great architecture.”
-- Curtis W. Fentress

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“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”

“Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.”

“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.”

“I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.”

“Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.”

“I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.”

“Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.”

“That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.”

“I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“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.