#ld

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#could #i #just #know #makes

I wish that person outside would stop coughing. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#i #i wish #outside #person #stop

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#battery #beautiful #building #cheap #contradictory

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#deal #else #everyone #hands #i

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#because #buildings #city #coherent #more

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#black and white #completely #i #i do #see

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#architect #build #concert #concert hall #great

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#could #i #i think #long #long time

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate. ↗

— Willem de Kooning

#activity #become #course #desperate #desperation

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#act #art #believe #better #better place