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I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space. Peter Zumthor

Money Passion Space Think Facade About Architectural Making Making Money Creating Elevation Thing Image

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas. Peter Zumthor

Mainly Vehicles Ideas Buildings Interested Mean Symbols

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement. Peter Zumthor

Architecture World Statement Makes Concrete Exists Where Place

I work anywhere between three and 10 years on a project, depending on the size. My lifetime is finite. Therefore, I have to look carefully at how many projects I want to put into my lifetime. Peter Zumthor

Work Three Carefully Project Projects Finite Lifetime Put Between Look How Years Depending Size Want Anywhere Many Therefore

Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent. Peter Zumthor

I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name. Peter Zumthor

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My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. Peter Zumthor

First About Buildings Aesthetic Were Reasons Rejected

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available. Peter Zumthor

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper. Philip Schaff

Religion Book Words Law Church Living Paper Pen Reliable Spirit Recorded He Written Put Mosaic Like Redeemed Witnesses His Deeds Code Ever Founded Honest

The New Testament presents, in its way, the same union of the divine and human as the person of Christ. In this sense also 'the word became flesh, and dwells among us.' Philip Schaff

Word Christ Sense Way Divine New Also Became Testament Person New Testament Same Human Dwells Us Flesh Union Among Presents

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation. Philip Schaff

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My photography is the result of being there at the right moment. Rene Burri

Photography Result Right Moment Being Moment Being There Right

I never had the time or luxury to think about inventing my own colour theory. When colour came, I was interested in expressing things that happened around me in time. Rene Burri

Time Me Luxury Own Think About My Own Inventing Colour Never Had Around Came Happened Interested Theory Expressing Things

Everyone takes pictures, so you need to have your own opinion. Rene Burri

You Own Everyone Takes Pictures Opinion Your Need

What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document. Rene Burri

You Yourself Picture Otherwise Putting Counts Document Intensity Just Experienced

One of these days, I'm going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not take. It is going to be a huge hit. Rene Burri

Book Publish Take Days Pictures Huge Hit Did Going

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal. Rene Burri

For me, Picasso was the ultimate man. He taught me that photography is all about how you approach an image: what you do and what you don't do. He inspired me to go beyond what you think is in front of you. Rene Burri

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It took me six years to get close to Picasso. I learnt a lot from him, and he was an absolute genius. He almost became my grandfather at the time. It was like he was a magician or something. Rene Burri

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