Lawrence Halprin quotes

The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it. (Lawrence Halprin)
Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks. View quote
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I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things. View quote
Lawrence Halprin
The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act. View quote
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And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family. View quote
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Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like. View quote
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And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense. View quote
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Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative. View quote
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Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good. View quote
Lawrence Halprin

Lawrence Halprin

Occupation: American Architect
Born: July 1, 1916
Died: October 25, 2009
Quotes count: 9