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I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Been Cancer Death Faced Lucky Maggie Man Only Real Tragedy Wife

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It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Any Icon Mark Open Should

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A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Complex House Me Series Sign Symbol Symbols Very

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If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Get Kitchen Kitsch Out Take You

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If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Bottom Building Capital Column Dating Detail Dinosaur Down Exactly Exactly What Good Gothic Historian Infer Like Look Parts Rest Right Small Tell Version Whole Why You

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What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Interesting Interesting Thing Most Other People Thing

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Europe has been in my bones.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Been Bones Europe

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Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Dialogue See Universe You

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The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Beautiful Beauty Between Cheekbones Chin Experience Experienced Makes Objects Other Particular Particular Way Parts People Perception Point Sensations Singular Them Up Various Way

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Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: About Attitude Away Beauty Certain Confidence Confident Dogmatic Even Flies Goodness Hard Idea Knowing Like Love Our Seem Think To Love Truth Until

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: June 21st, 1939

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