Gae Aulenti quotes
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“The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone's experiences with the serenity of an effortless development.”
-- Gae AulentiSource : Gae Aulenti, Margherita Petranzan (1997). “Gae Aulenti”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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“When you're criticized for something, it's best to wait two or three years and see.”
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“I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an historic monument, but it does not deserve all the respect given it when it is said it is perfect, original and coherent expression of a past that we must revere. Orsay is basically a box.”
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“I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.”
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“Light is impressionism.”
-- Gae AulentiSource : Time, December 8, 1986.
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“My advice to whoever asks me how to make a home is to not have anything, just a few shelves for books, some pillows to sit on. And then, to take a stand against the ephemeral, against passing trends... and to return to lasting values.”
-- Gae Aulenti
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“As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.”
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“The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.”
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“I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.”
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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 38), 1937.
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“If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.”
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