What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people. Charles Jencks interestpeoplething Change image and share on social
A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases. Charles Jencks casecuredisease share on social
I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995. Charles Jencks cancerdeathface Change image and share on social
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant. Charles Jencks absoluteaffluencedominant Change image and share on social
You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting. Charles Jencks bigcosmicculture share on social
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions. Charles Jencks bottomcentrecone share on social
If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen. Charles Jencks kitchenkitsch Change image and share on social
The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but be moved. Charles Jencks bodycellcentre Change image and share on social
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. Charles Jencks appliquedegeneratekitsch Change image and share on social
You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's 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. Charles Jencks exercisefeedbackimmune share on social