Gaudi Quotes

• Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

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  Grant Achatz

  People   Renoir   Beckett  

  Interview with Michael Y. Park, www.epicurious.com. September 27, 2010.

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• One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

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  Robert Hughes

  Miracle   Catholic   Tourism  

  "Barcelona". Book by Robert Hughes, 1992.

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• I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.

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  Oscar Niemeyer

  Country   School   Please Me  

  Oscar Niemeyer's acceptance speech for Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1988.

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• What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?

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  Kanye West

  What If   Way   Architect  

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• Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.

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  Salvador Dali

  Children   Heart   Perfection  

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