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I've been such an outsider my whole life.
— Thom Mayne
The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.
— Thom Mayne
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
— Thom Mayne
The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.
— Thom Mayne
I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.
— Thom Mayne
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
— Thom Mayne
I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.
— Novak Djokovic
Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic.
— Francisco Costa
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.
— Thom Mayne
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.
— Thom Mayne
Miseria fortes viros, Ronan," Adam said.
When he said "Ronan," it meant: Ronan. — Maggie Stiefvater
When he said "Ronan," it meant: Ronan. — Maggie Stiefvater
New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling.
— Thom Mayne
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
— Thom Mayne
I'm not a tabula rasa type. In some ways, the more constraints I have, the work is more interesting to me.
— Thom Mayne
I'm a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I'm not a natural negotiator. But I've learned to negotiate.
— Thom Mayne
I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.
— Thom Mayne
Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.
— Andy Mineo
Men make history, not the other way around.
— Harry S. Truman
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
— Thom Mayne
Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
— James Patterson
Being the exception was no longer a mysterious, special thing. I had become his weakness.
— Jamie McGuire
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.
— Thom Mayne
For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.
— Thom Mayne
Find a place that you are comfortable with. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make a lot of mistakes.
— Thom Mayne
I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.
— Thom Mayne
We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.
— Thom Mayne
You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.
— Thom Mayne
I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.
— Thom Mayne
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
— Thom Mayne