Bernard Rudofsky quotes

“For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.”
-- Bernard Rudofsky

Source : 1964 Architecture without Architects.

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“There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.”
-- Bernard Rudofsky

Source : Bernard Rudofsky, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1964). “Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-pedigreed Architecture”, p.6, UNM Press

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“I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.”
-- Bernard Rudofsky

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“Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance”

“Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.”

“Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.”

“Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!”

“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”

“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“No one man is superior to the game.”

“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

“Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.”

“The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'”

Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial