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"So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position."

Thom Mayne on Attitude

More quotes about Attitude

• "Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life."

  Joel Osteen on Attitude

• "My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."

  Michael Jordan on Attitude

• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

  Albert Einstein on Attitude

• "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

  Thomas Jefferson on Attitude

• "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

  Winston Churchill on Attitude

More quotes by Thom Mayne

• "My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."

• "But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour."

• "Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art."

• "I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more."

• "The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value."