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There was a thing inside him that had wanted to see New York. He had been to Atlanta once when he was a boy and he had seen New York in a picture show, Big Town Rhythm it was. Big towns were important places. The thing inside him had sneaked up on him for just one instant. The place he'd seen in the picture show had room for him! It was an important place and it had room for him! He'd said yes, he'd go.

Flannery O’Connor, “The Geranium,” 1946

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If you’re going to admit that stories matter, then it matters how we tell them, and that exists on the level of microscopic word choice, as well as on the level of which story are you going to pick to start off with, and then, what exactly is that story? The whole question of ‘What is that story?’ is going to depend on the language, the words that you use.

Emily Wilson, “On Narrative,” 2017

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There is a powerful critique of preservation to be unpacked within the notion of fetishism, because heritage should help us transition from one stage of culture into another. But when we hang on to an object beyond what should be a transitional period, then we are still stuck, and we become fetishistic toward that object. The notion of destruction is really important, but it doesn’t mean that objects should be destroyed. It means that as we care for objects in a particular way, we are actually destroying them. At a certain point, we can accept the object for what it is and let go.

Jorge Otero-Pailos, “On Experimental Preservation,” 2017

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When we choose an object, we’re actually trying to engage society. That’s what the very radical proposition of experimental preservation is: we deploy objects as a way to raise fundamental questions about what’s important to us.

Jorge Otero-Pailos, “On Experimental Preservation,” 2017

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Making your unknown known is the important thing.

Georgia O’Keeffe in David Brooks, “When Beauty Strikes,” 2016

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There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be 'the man in the street.' Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.

Joseph Goebbels, "On Creating Propaganda,” 1945

The most important thing in the world, the most expensive thing, is time. The only way you can get time is to buy it.

Lawrence Weiner, “On Art,” c. 2016

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For me, if an exhibition, or the artworks it presents, question the fundamental issues related to our lives, or universal thinking, then this is more important than thinking about the method or type of exhibition.

Mami Kataoka, Interview with Terry Smith, 2015

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In our buildings you will see that there are certain things that appear carefully composed, and certain things that look almost spontaneous. And we feel that that element of spontaneity is very important in the buildings. That, suddenly there is that triangle that sticks out in some odd location. Why? but there is no why.

Arquitectonica, “On Architecture,” 1983 (via rndrd)

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1. Urgent and important (tasks you will do immediately). 2. Important, but not urgent (tasks you will schedule to do later). 3. Urgent, but not important (tasks you will delegate to someone else). 4. Neither urgent nor important (tasks that you will eliminate).

Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Eisenhower Box: How To Be More Productive, c. 1950

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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Eisenhower Box: How To Be More Productive, c. 1950

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Vito Acconci, Why Unbuilt Projects Are as Important as Built Ones, 2014

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The protagonist of this project is the black shadow. The shape is not so important. This is very Japanese. For Junichiro Tanizaki [author of In Praise of Shadows] the shadow is the most important of design, and I designed the shadow.

Kengo Kuma, "The Fold and the Shadow," 2014 (via ummhello)

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Architects are constantly doing permanent bridges that don't connect really important things. ... I've been trying to create vertical bridges, bridges that could really connect important things: heaven and hell, earth and sky.

Jaume Plensa, TEDx Talk at SMU, Dallas, TX, 2011

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I use 'historical materialism' to designate the view of the course of history, which seeks the ultimate causes and the great moving power of all important historic events in the economic development of society, in the changes in the modes of production and exchange, with the consequent division of society into distinct classes and the struggles of these classes.

Friedrich Engels, "On Historical Materialism," c. 1880

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein, "On Imagination," c. 1930

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Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

Benoit Mandelbrot, "On Smoothness," c. 1990

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