List of Thom Mayne Quotes

It's Too Simplistic To Advance The Notion Of The Autonomy Of Art As A Reason For Turning Away From The Public. You Can Have Autonomy And Simultaneously Have Connections With The Social And Political World.

Art In Progress. Mak Has Occupied A Unique And Valuable Space As International Host For Discourse Between The Arts And Architecture.

Our Idea Of Nature Is Increasingly Being Determined By Scientific Developments. And They Have Become Decisive For Our Image Of Reality.

So At A Time In Which The Media Give The Public Everything It Wants And Desires, Maybe Art Should Adopt A Much More Aggressive Attitude Towards The Public. I Myself Am Very Much Inclined To Take This Position.

So I Am Totally Aware That When I Defend The Autonomy Of Art I'm Going Counter To My Own Development. It's More An Instinctive Reaction, Meant To Protect The Private Aspect Of The Work, The Part I Am Most Interested In And Which Nowadays Is At Risk In Our Culture.

Scientific Reality Is The Modern Human Condition, And You Can See That In The Symbolic Nature Of My Work.

For Me The Meaning Of My Work Is Much More Fluid.

I've Learned That In Order To Achieve What I Wanted, It Made More Sense To Negotiate Than To Defend The Autonomy Of My Work By Pounding My Fist On The Table.

Large-scale Public Projects Require The Agreement Of Large Numbers Of People.

I've Been Such An Outsider My Whole Life.

You Might Say That When You Step Inside, You're Entering A Honorific Space, But That's Something Totally Different Than Experiencing It. And In Architecture The Experience Comes First. That Has The Deepest Effect On Us.

So We Can't Go Backwards, We Can Only Go Where The Evolutionary Trajectory Is Taking Us And Attune Our Ideas About Ourselves And Our Existence To That Course.