Jacques Wirtz quotes

“When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.”
-- Jacques Wirtz

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“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”

“I see little hope for a nation that values the health of its livestock more than that of its people....Farmers are not criticized for routinely giving their (live)stock nutritional supplements....superior to any sold for humans...Millions of families could plant home gardens if they truly wanted health. Refined food are practically unknown in Russia. The life expectancy of the 40-year-old American is near the lowest in the world.”

“Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.”

“Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.”

Source : "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".

“It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.”

“I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored”

“I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.”

“There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.”

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

“Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.”

“I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.”