Douglas Cardinal quotes

“We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity.”
-- Douglas Cardinal

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“If you're going to dream, why dream small?”
-- Douglas Cardinal

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“I'm not an answering machine, I'm a questioning machine. If we have all the answers, how come we're in such as mess?”
-- Douglas Cardinal

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“We are now becoming more aware of our links to the universe and are reaching out to the universe for knowledge. We are evolving from earth creatures to star creatures. Our minds now explore the worlds beyond, and we sense a destiny beyond this planet.”
-- Douglas Cardinal

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“I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.”

“In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.99, Image Continuum Press

“No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.”

“We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.”

“Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.”

“Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.”

“When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.”

“She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.”

“Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself, to eat properly, and focus on building up my strength.”

“Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.”