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Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
— Alfred Nobel
If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.
— Charles Jencks
What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?
— Charles Jencks
There is no time like the present to present the present
— Ronald B. Adler
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
— Charles Jencks
Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?
— Charles Jencks
In the dark you looked so human in your skin that I called you human in my head and didn't want you then and felt relieved: a love story.
— Melissa Broder
One of the things that made 'American Pie' great was also the sexiness of it.
— Hayden Schlossberg
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
— Charles Jencks
I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.
— Charles Jencks
It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.
— Charles Jencks
Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.
— Charles Jencks
You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.
— Arshile Gorky
Will you return to your home if Prince Grotto's reign is ended?""Yes. It is home."
"Will you take me back as your gardener? — Terry Spear
Europe has been in my bones.
— Charles Jencks
The glory of age is beauty of gray hair.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.
— Charles Jencks
I'm not against thinking; I'm only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.
— Scott Westerfeld
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.
— Charles Jencks
In all that I do & in all that I say ... may it always be said: that I was a friend of God each and everyday!
— Timothy Pina
In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.
— Amanda Eliasch
What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.
— Charles Jencks