10 Quotes by Ivan Chtcheglov

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. [Entre l'amour et le vide-ordure automatique la jeunesse de tous les pays a fait son choix et préfère le vide-ordure.]

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

You’ll never see the hacienda. It doesn’t exist. The hacienda must be built.

All cities are geological and three steps cannot be taken without encountering ghosts.

We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke an indefinable impression: as a result of this sighting backward in time, the absence of the object becomes a presence one can feel.

Everyone will live in his own cathedral.

Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones.

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.

A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.