Rem Koolhaas Quotes

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

It was a quality of my childhood that everything had these two sides. Even though things could be really beautiful and peaceful one moment, they could also be a bit chaotic or maybe terrifying in another.

I'm not interested in a good man's life. I'm interested in contradiction.

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

The world is full of contradiction.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

We live in a bewildering world.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.