We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency. - Rem Koolhaas

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It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

Rem Koolhaas

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

Almost Perfect, Incredibles, Stillness, Work, Urgency, Perfect

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Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or any generosity implied in colonialism, is again fundamentally neglected or fundamentally not recognised. That's crazy, because history is a series of layers, and you cannot say, "This layer I support and this layer I cancel. " History is history and you cannot retrospectively manipulate it.

Achievement, Correctness, Crazy, Generosity, Political, Support

The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.

Block, Cities, Fluid, Lessons, Ordered, Two

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

Essentials, Exercised, Groups, Modesty, Star, Stars

There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.

Evolution, Interested, Mean, Perspective, Plateau, Potential

Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

Business, Frontier, Men, Sky, Space, West

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Neil Peart

Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey. ' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.

Appears, Background, Land, Milk And Honey, Names, Simply

Warsan Shire

Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.

Document, Feels, Love, Love You, Moments, Repeat

Vincent Van Gogh

It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

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Mark Sisson

We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.

Disease, Genes, Ifs, Predisposed

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I know that hereafter it will be written; when instead of these few inlets of the senses through which we now secure impressions from without, there shall be a flood of impressions from all sides; and instead of these few tones of our little octave, there shall be an infinite scale of harmonies - for I feel it - I am sure of it. This world of music, whose borders even now I have scarcely entered, is a reality, is immortal.

Brain, Flood, Heart, Immortal, Reality, Writing