John Nash
Designer of Regent Street and Royal Pavilion, shaping London's urban landscape with neoclassical elegance.
Most quoted
"I've always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask, what is truly logic? Who decides reason?"
— from A Beautiful Mind (film, attributed)
"I was in the middle of a dream, and I was talking to a beautiful woman, and I was saying, 'I'm sorry, I have to go to the bathroom.'"
— from Interview after Nobel Prize, 1994
"The ideas of game theory have been applied to many different fields, from economics to biology to political science."
— from Speech
All quotes by John Nash (100)
Greenwich's observatories mirror the heavens in human hands.
Jokes aside, proportion is no laughing matter.
Life's meaning unfolds in the spaces between structures.
Patronage is the wind that fills architectural sails.
The dome of St. James is a crown upon the earth.
Enduring designs defy the tempests of fashion.
In my twilight years, I see buildings as old friends.
Humor: Why did the column stand alone? It had no peers.
Science of sightlines shapes the architect's eye.
Correspondence with friends: Ideas flow like rivers to the sea of creation.
The profound silence of a perfect plaza.
Witty retort to a rival: Your plans are as stable as sandcastles.
Meaning in architecture: To shelter dreams under one roof.
Key to my work: Elegance without extravagance.
Aphorism: Stones speak when men are silent.
From my major plans: Unity in diversity of forms.
Politics of design: Power visualized in pillars.
Last reflections: The blueprint of life is ever unfinished.
Joke on delays: Architecture waits for no man, but men wait for architects.
Personal wisdom: Build not for today, but for the echoes of tomorrow.
Contemporaries of John Nash
Other Architectures born within 50 years of John Nash (1752–1835).