Ed Martin Quotes

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

I'd love to win trophies, be in movies, have a body of work I'm proud of and find a way to enjoy it along the way. Success is probably a more of a complicated thing than that.

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

Always beware an unsigned architectural design.

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

Americans increasingly understand that clean energy is more than just an environmental issue. It is crucial to reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign countries.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.

If Arsenal don't finish third, they might not finish in third place.

I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.

While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.

I get described as 'interesting' a lot. People often call me odd, too. Maybe they mean ugly. Given the services of a plastic surgeon, I would get a pair of cheekbones.

A totally honest organization would never hide or disguise actions or stonewall.

In a way, if we want to make the postseason, we feel like we have to win out. We have got some good games coming up, but we are going to have to buckle down and get the job done somehow.

I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs.

Scoring a lot of points is not a goal of mine. I just do whatever I do best to help my team win. I'm a role player.

I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

Even in the most bold and daring acts, courage is a matter of the heart.

I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.

I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.

The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's.

All modeling efforts will inevitably converge on the result most likely to lead to further funding.

I like being around funny people.

I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.

I don't do the like, "This led to this, and this was why this happened." That doesn't feel real and isn't how I experience things.

That was an instance where I was given a word to define my confusing experience, and I'm just like, "nah."

I think I've been able to express some of the more complicated feelings I had.

I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.

I want to draw subjects that seem very boring and everyday... Stuff that would be normal except for one thing. Or two things. Or stuff that's undeniably weird.

I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.

I think it's really important to have a sense of humor.

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.