Canadian Quotes

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.

Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all they're interested in is hairdos and looking at other beautiful people. Maybe they're interested in learning something.

I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut.

I've always been fairly reserved and laid-back.

I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I would have had to watch out. I guess 60 seems really young when you're 90. She said she would eat me with a spoon.

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.

But I do enjoy the freedom of doing a movie and then having some time off.

I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

I'm the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.

These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions.

These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level.

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.