Alexander Girard quotes

Alexander Girard quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.”
-- Alexander Girard

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“Art is only art if it is synonymous with living”
-- Alexander Girard

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“The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.”
-- Alexander Girard

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“There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.”
“There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.”
“People are irrational - and predictably so.”
“Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational.”

Source : Gayle Greene (2009). “Insomniac”, p.39, Univ of California Press
“Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.”

Source : New Statesman and Society interview, 1990.
“The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.”
“I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.”
“It's not easy being the sane one!”
“Music kept me sane between acting jobs.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”

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