23 Quotes by Robin Evans

As time passes, what was once an unpredictable step sideways becomes a definitive step forward for art.

Art needs to be imaginatively undressed in order to be appreciated, and so does the world.

Mathematics, after all, lives on unambiguous exactitude, whereas there are types of art that die of it.

The mystery of building is that many things conspire to stand as one.

…the extent of Ronchamp’s resemblance to other things is exceptionally broad. Nor is it only an issue of extent. More is at stake. The nature of the building alters drastically when what it resembles cannot be traced back to Le Corbusier’s mind; it becomes less predictable and its meaning is less stable.

The truly haunting Other is not what lies outside the text but what lies outside the picturesque garden of the Western world.

It is often assumed that a symbol, while not necessarily representing a truth, represents a belief, and so speaks directly for a historical frame of mind.

Imagination is not held within the mind, but it is potentially active in all the areas of transition from persons to objects or pictures. It operates, in other words, in the same zones as projection and its metaphors.

...architecture begins and ends in pictures…