Baris Gencel > Baris's Quotes

“Chefs should understand perfume. Designers should understand cinema. Creativity grows when disciplines begin to speak to each other.”
― Baris Gencel

“The future doesn’t need more content.
The future needs more clarity.
More people who dare to feel first and build after.”
― Baris Gencel

“Give Hong Kong to an Artist. He can use it. It can be poetised.”
― Baris Gencel

“The world is always speaking. When we truly listen — not with words, but with perception — something extraordinary emerges.”
― Baris Gencel

“Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance.”
― Baris Gencel

“Knowledge is power as long as it is shared.”
― Baris Gencel

“Love and knowledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving and same goes to knowledge too..”
― Baris Gencel

“For me, meaning of design is to give soul to objects by Art. Art sometimes need to be in every part of daily life, not only in the galleries and museums.”
― Baris Gencel

“Who said Hong Kong too small? In size perhaps but not in it`s soul and personality. Every corner in this city giving you full of surprises, if not every hour but at least every day….”
― Baris Gencel

“Artists shows us what we blind to.”
― Baris Gencel

“Good designs are in special places for those who has appreciation; bad designs are everywhere.”
― Baris Gencel

“More interest you have more knowledge you have and more knowledge you have more questions you have and more questions means more wisdom you have and you are already inside the vein of life which is running with enormous speed.”
― Baris Gencel

“Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it is a way of showing your appreciation and love to the loved body through her senses.”
― Baris Gencel

“This is Unique !! Shopping malls working with one side of our needs, material satisfaction but here @ K11 there is a huge effort and initiative to bring emotional needs of human, our spiritual satisfaction.
K11 doing this with bringing Art and Nature in to the material shopping experience. It is not only satisfying physical needs and material but also our soul. Art itself is biggest teacher and Nature is biggest artist.”
― Baris Gencel

“@K11, Urban farming; It’s something nice and warm for families and kids, but also references elements of the city. Urban Farming is very important for Shanghainese people because the city has lost its connection with nature. When you buy fruit or vegetables it’s just that - a product - for kids and us, we wanted to reconnect this with the amazing process of growing plants. People need this, urban farming connects people with their roots. In this way it’s also educational”
― Baris Gencel

“When the kids see how amazing one seed turning in to beautiful flower and transformation to a juicy red strawberries then We are saving our future, it is not a product anymore that they used to grab in the supermarket but it is magic of life and with urban farming we doing this. @ K11”
― Baris Gencel

“There is no value for a knowledge that has not been shared. More you share more it will be and will make impacts over impacts, influence one to another in a positive way.”
― Baris Gencel

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“Being right is based upon knowledge and experience and is often provable. Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality. Experience is built from solutions to old situations and problems. The old situations are probably different from the present ones, so that old solutions will have to be bent to fit new problems (and possibly fit badly). Also the likelihood is that, if you've got the experience, you'll probably use it. This is lazy. Experience is the opposite of being creative. If you can prove you're right you're set in concrete. You cannot move with the times or with other people. Being right is also being boring. Your mind is closed. You are not open to new ideas. You are rooted in your own rightness, which is arrogant. Arrogance is a valuable tool, but only if used very sparingly. Worst of all, being right has a tone of morality about it. To be anything else sounds weak or fallible, and people who are right would hate to be thought fallible. So: it's wrong to be right, because people who are right are rooted in the past, rigid-minded, dull and smug. There's no talking to them.”
― Paul Arden, It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be

“We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can.”
― Paul Arden

“Elegance and smartness is the sexiest thing woman can have, not just the flesh”
― Baris Gencel

“Without passion everything is lame in this life.”
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― Baris Gencel

“Information is nutrition, knowledge is nutrition, art is nutrition and they set us free. Internet is a great library, great library is a freedom within wisdom in this digital age”
― Baris Gencel

“For me, meaning of design is to give soul to objects by Art. Art sometimes need to be in every part of daily life, not only in the galleries and museums”
― Baris Gencel

“I am giving soul and functionality to art by implementing her in to daily objects by through out design”
― Baris Gencel

“Designer turns daily common objects to sexy and interesting stuff but not necessarily functional.”
― Baris Gencel

“At this stage I can see most of the men are still primitive about sexual perception and conception.”
― Baris Gencel

“Without feeling so close, so connected, so comfortable to a person for what I have sex.”
― Baris Gencel

“Japan!everything in details perfection.”
― Baris Gencel

“China!everything in details failure.”
― Baris Gencel