Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
address anyone art longer peculiar runners
My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field.
change
The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.
art parks works
Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.
art great hard matter tried work
No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.
art great shown
Great art should be shown with great excitement.
art fever greed work
If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.
five four park
Utopia would mean a park - some large, some small - every four or five blocks.
creators felt love people sterile studied stuff time
I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.
built environment imagination milton places seemed shows took
As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.
fascinated future human interest life people sign
An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.
architecture massive value
To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.
break chance designs finally human large people sculptures structures work
I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.
architects bringing criticise devote people taste themselves whether
It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.
art people trying
I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.