Quotes by : Charles Jencks

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios....

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is -....

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous....

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond....

A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth....

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive,....

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the....

If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's....

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when....