"The leg of a chair is the little sister of a column."

– Alvar Aalto

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

– Napoleon Hill

"The details are not the details, they make the design."

– Charles Eames

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

– Wayne Gretzky

"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."

– Claude Debussy

"You need the simplest version of the idea in order for it to grow naturally in the subject's mind. It's a very subtle art."

– Eames, Inception

Beauty finds her achievement in simplicity.

– Iyanat Khan

Never design anything that cannot be made.

– Jean Prouvé

If you think you can't make the world a better place with your work, at least make sure you don't make it worse.

– Herman Hertzberger

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

– Tony Robbins

Look like a girl. Act like a lady. Think like a man. Work like a boss.

– Marilyn Monroe

"Out of limitations, new forms emerge."

– Georges Braque

The sun does not realize how wonderful it is until after a room is made

– Louis Kahn

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again

– Renzo Piano

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“Not all who wonder are lost”

– J.R.R. Tolkien

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one

– Zaha Hadid

It is joy to be hidden, but disaster not to be found.

– Donald Woods Winnicott

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“A building has two lives. The one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward.”

– David Chipperfield