Quotes by Jonathan Meades

Jonathan Meades

As a driver I have come to believe that the person just in front of me and the person just behind me are always just about to do something really stupid. Tense is not the right word, but I am very hyper-aware of such things.

Believe

Stupid

Tense

As primitive as digital can be, there is nothing automatic in the methods I use, it’s all basically done by hand. I know nothing about computers. I don’t like computers. I use them for writing because I have to. I have never had a conversation about computers in my life.

Computer

Done

Writing

At any point in the world’s history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there’s been a collective mentality since the late Conservative years – the end of Thatcher/start of Major and certainly continued throughout New Labour and continuing now – that new is necessarily better, so there is this neophilia which isn’t the vanguard of progress, it’s just the vanguard of the construction industry enjoying itself.

Construction Industry

Thinking

Years

Brummies run themselves down, they’re very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren’t.

People

Running

Self

Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don’t like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence will say, ‘Oh, that building there is being knocked down, who did that one?’

Mind

People

Years

For the most part, French cities are much better preserved and looked after than British cities, because the bourgeoisie, the people who run the cities, have always lived centrally, which has only recently begun to happen in big cities in England. Traditionally in England, people who had any money would live out in the suburbs. Now, increasingly, people with money live in the cities, but this has changed only in the last 20 or so years.

Changed

People

Running

Going on things like rollercoasters is not really up my street I guess. I don’t feel like I need to do stunts. I’m too scared and I don’t think it’s my job.

Jobs

Needs

Thinking

I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I was a child. I did want to be a cartographer but that was partly because I liked Ordnance Survey maps and when I used to go to my grandparents’ house from Southampton Station one went past the headquarters of the Ordnance Survey.

Children

Grandparent

Past

I do make myself be interested in places in a way that I don’t make myself be interested in people.

People

Way

I don’t believe in synergy. I believe that things have to be specific to the medium that they’re in.

Believe

Mediums

Synergy

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Architecture

Art

Attitude

Believe

Book

Bottom Of The Barrel

Cameras

Care

Careers

Cases

Changed

Character

Children

Cities

Computer

Construction Industry

Country

Creating

Criticism

Cultural Relativism

Different

Dna

Dog

Done

Doubt

Dream

Entertainment

Fiction

Force

Garden

Giants

Grandparent

Ideas

Interest

Interesting

Jobs

Lasts

Likes

Long

Looks

Magic

Mean

Mediums

Men

Mind

Needs

One Day

Over You

Past

People

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Quotes by Jonathan Meades

Jonathan Meades

As a driver I have come to believe that the person just in front of me and the person just behind me are always just about to do something really stupid. Tense is not the right word, but I am very hyper-aware of such things.

As primitive as digital can be, there is nothing automatic in the methods I use, it’s all basically done by hand. I know nothing about computers. I don’t like computers. I use them for writing because I have to. I have never had a conversation about computers in my life.

Brummies run themselves down, they’re very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren’t.

Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don’t like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence will say, ‘Oh, that building there is being knocked down, who did that one?’

Going on things like rollercoasters is not really up my street I guess. I don’t feel like I need to do stunts. I’m too scared and I don’t think it’s my job.

I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I was a child. I did want to be a cartographer but that was partly because I liked Ordnance Survey maps and when I used to go to my grandparents’ house from Southampton Station one went past the headquarters of the Ordnance Survey.

I do make myself be interested in places in a way that I don’t make myself be interested in people.

I don’t believe in synergy. I believe that things have to be specific to the medium that they’re in.

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