Ada Huxtable Quotes
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Ada Huxtable Quotes & Sayings
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New York, thy name is irreverence and hyperbole. And grandeur.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.
— Lance Morrow
Mix a conviction with a man and ...
— Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
I could eat gazpacho three times a day.
— Tory Burch
Love gives life purpose and meaning.
— Joyce Meyer
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'
— David Harewood
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
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.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Yes. I was such a bumpkin then ... I was as naive a country mushroom as you could meet.
— Anna Campbell
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Every generation tailors history to its taste.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
How long that song seemed - longer than life.
— Zadie Smith
If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
