Cesar Pelli Quotes

It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

My studio's passion is improving the public experience of cities for everyone.

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

The public is a part of my real life.

What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact.

In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.

My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

It is a lucky thing that newspaper reporters do not attend these meetings. If they did, they would see how little our activities are related to the real needs of society.

The public interest is more than the sum total of the interest groups.

When people fought for a democratic life, they were insisting that the common man had the capacity to engage in deliberation about how the community ought to run its life, not that you could let him squeak for what he wanted. And that ideal was that you could educate the common man to develop a certain amount of wisdom and that he could marshal the objectivity to deliberate and decide about what the public would require without always thinking that the political action was an opportunity to further his private interests…

I do not consider that letters written to public men on matters affecting the public interest and threatening the public welfare are private letters.

This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this and all jobs in journalism have believed that.

The public must find a way avoid the damage caused by a majority who neither has the ability or the desire to legislate.

I think whenever something is - whenever there's something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.

The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.