“Herzog describes Tate Modern as “the key project in our career”. “It was the real jump to the largest possible exposure you could have anywhere, because nowhere else would you attract as many people – twice as many as in New York. It trained us, helped us understand what architecture can do: to be more than just fulfilling the brief and giving the physical structure, but instead using the project to do something else, to create a new part of the city, a public platform. That’s the real success of the Tate Modern.” — Jacques Herzog via http://twitter.com/#!/rognbrow/status/205608338623447040
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” — CARL SAGAN (via Advice to Writers)
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See more photos from the eclipse by searching #eclipse.
An annular solar eclipse took place today, visible in the western United States and parts of Asia. The eclipse is the first of its kind to be visible from the mainland United States since 1994. Another such eclipse will not occur in the region until 2023.
“Our individual salvation depends on collective salvation. Because thinking only about yourself, fulfilling your immediate wants and needs, betrays a poverty of ambition.” — Barack Obama
“But at their core, artists and scientists are not so different from one another. Both endeavor to solve our greatest mysteries through the power of imagination. The great American playwright Eugene O’Neill described his work as an effort to explain the mysterious forces behind life that shape human destiny. I suspect Einstein could relate.” —
Bill O’Brien, National Endowment for the Arts
From The Imagine Engine! or Art and Science, exploring the creative practices of art and science and where they intersect, sometimes outside the comfort zones of either discipline.
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“La afirmación de que en el género del paisaje ya está todo hecho carece de sentido. Nadie puede cansarse de la naturaleza. De lo que estamos cansados es de nuestra forma de mirarla. Entonces, veámosla de otra forma” — David Hockney, via http://www.elcultural.es/version_papel/ARTE/31004/David_Hockney
“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” — Salvador Dalí / Vía brainpickings.com
“Creativity is just connecting things.” — Steve Jobs
“To truly make good public space, you have to erase the distinctions between architecture, urbanism, landscape, [and] media design.” — Liz Diller, via Archdaily / TED talks (http://www.archdaily.com/233196/ted-talk-a-giant-bubble-for-debate-liz-diller/)
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