Willis Polk quotes

“Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.”
-- Willis Polk

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“Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.”
-- Willis Polk

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“In city planning, there is no limit to be fixed.”
-- Willis Polk

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“No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.”
-- Willis Polk

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“To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.”
-- Willis Polk

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“You are the architect of your own loneliness.”

Source : Henry Thomas Hamblin (2009). “The Power of Thought”, p.4, The Floating Press

“Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.”

“With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.”

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

“I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.”

“I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.”

Source : "Boyd Holbrook On Film". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 30, 2014.

“I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.”

“I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.”

“Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.”

“As a child I wanted to become an architect.”

“Question everything generally thought to be obvious.”

Source : François Burkhardt, Inez Franksen, Dieter Rams (1981). “Design: Dieter Rams &”