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The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.


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I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.



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We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.



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Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.



Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.



A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.



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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.



I Use The Square To Begin My Solutions Because The Square Is A Non-choice, Really. In The Course Of Development, I Search For The Forces That Would Disprove The Square.

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