Bruce Jackson Quotes

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things.

Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force.

The sky always seems to be out there, away from us. I like to bring it down in close contact with us, so you feel you are in it. We feel we are at the bottom of this ocean of air; we are actually on a planet.

There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.

We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

No, but you can see it from here.

The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

Your frame of reference is what you see.

I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.

Yes, it is better to look from the window than not to look at all, but to look through the window cannot be compared to the windowless sky.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It is just me thinking about being you. And before I headed back down the hill, I walked in a circle around your house, making an invisible line which you would have to cross before dark.