Rem Koolhaas Quotes

I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.

Velcro: what a rip-off.

I want to make affordable shoes of quality that are very fashion forward, chic, and that I'm going to wear.

In the past, I have approximated the look of monkey fur and yak hair with human hair because it's inexpensive, and it lasts a long time.

One does not consider style, because style is.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

Accent the ugly until it becomes gorgeous.

Only the impossible lasts forever.

I think that could be a very compromising situation where people naturally may do things that may not be in the interest of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved.

And that doesn't cost any money, to have decent relationships and viable situations. What costs money is car chases and shoot-outs, so I always thought that the thing to work on was the characters.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

The growth of The Body Shop is testimony to the fact that you don't need to waste money on costly advertising campaigns to be successful. Instead, we've always relied on word of mouth and stories.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.

If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble.

Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.

Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.

What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.

I think we need missile defense. But I want to make sure it works, that it's cost effective, that the technologies are operable, that it's our best possible strategy, and that hasn't been shown.