Famous Quotes

"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on Famous

More quotes about Famous

• "Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

  Andy Warhol on Famous

• "I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous."

  Walt Disney on Famous

• "What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous."

  Voltaire on Famous

• "We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Famous

• "Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable."

  Ambrose Bierce on Famous

More quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

• "Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany."

• "Less is more."

• "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."

• "Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."

• "I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."