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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.

Charles Jencks

The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved.

Charles Jencks

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

Charles Jencks

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.

Charles Jencks

I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

Charles Jencks

Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

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Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

Charles Jencks

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

Charles Jencks

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

Charles Jencks

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Charles Jencks

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

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