Leon Krier Quotes

I hate everything that is rigid. I need freedom.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

Try squeezing a handful of water, and see how quickly it disappears. But relax and let your hand flow in the same water, and you have the experience of the water as long as you like.

I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.

I don't like things set in stone.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

I don't like closed systems.

When you are doing a TV series, people tell you when you have to wake up and when you have to have lunch, and I don't like it.

I don't know why we have to put things in boxes of superlatives. That isolates them. Life is fluid, and the minute you start trying to put a line around something, it will deceive you and go away.

There's always some room for improvisation.

Everybody's got a lot to their personalities. You're not just one element. There are some days you want something that can be a bit stricter or a bit more disciplined or something a bit more floaty and a bit freer.

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.

When one has no form, one can be all forms.

I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one.

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.