LE CORBUSIER

"You employ stone, wood, and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction... But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.' ," Le Corbusier. 

(Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930; Oct. 6, 1887- Aug. 27, 1965).

VIRGINIA WOOLF

 

"How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?" Virginia Woolf. 

(Adeline Virginia Woolf was a British writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child in a blended family of eight; Jan. 25, 1882- March 28, 1941).

 

Jason Isbell, "There just can't be more of them than of us"...

Interviewer (Sam Jones): “By nature, you have to examine things more closely than the
average human being walking down the street and the gift from artists (like yourself) is that through this examination they can reflect humanity back at us… you can learn to be more empathetic or more understanding of the human psyche by the fact that you try to write really lean song about it?” 

Jason Isbell: 

“… no, no, I think you are exactly right. That is why you should listen to good music and not listen to bad music. When I get angry about something being widely consumed and hugely successful that I think really sucks because it is so formulaic and corporate and bad.

That’s why it makes me mad and say we are all fine listening to whatever we want to listen to because I do think that there are some kinds of art that make you a better person. Whether you are consuming it or trying to create it, I think It helps you to build a better understanding of what other people are like inside themselves. 

Good music reminds you more of your similarities rather than your differences. And I think bad art reminds you so much of your differences… because you begin thinking, ‘I am not connecting with them. I am not because they are singing about things that I don’t care about but there are people out there who must care about it because they have sold 10 million records!’, so suddenly you begin to feel alienated.

There can’t be more of them than us. There is frustration there, but it is a question because I am not saying there are more of us than them. There just can’t be more of them than of us. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe there are…”

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

“Culture is what this country needs. Culture brings something from within outwards. Education takes something and tries to stick it on from the outside. Education tries to tell you, culture shows you,” Frank Lloyd Wright. 

(Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed; 1867-1959.)