Charles JencksThinkers

Beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

Evolution is a process that, be it cosmic or culture, occurs in jumps, in phase changes.

A Garden is a miniaturization and celebration of the place we are in, the universe.

The Heart is like a creeping plant, which withers unless it has something around which it can entwine.

The Icon 1s 2efining mark is that it should be open to iconoclasm.

The Placebo is a tricky subject in medicine. It is very difficult for the medical profession to get their teeth around the idea of a phony cure that actually works 30% of the time in psychogenic diseases.

The Placebo must be believed in in order to work. And if it works, it is obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.

A Sign is a one-liner in contrast to a symbol which is very complex.