John Ruskin Quotes
In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.
John Ruskin
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In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.
I. M. Pei
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
Walter Russell Mead
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
Walter Gropius
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.
Dieter Rams
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
Donna Karan
We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.
Jeff Fortenberry
When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city.
Christian de Portzamparc
I always knew I was attractive to girls just from the point of view that they liked me.
George Michael
To teach is to show. You can't teach what you don't know. You can't guide where you don't go. And you can't grow what you don't sow.
Kevin Peter Hall
No man's pie is freed
From his ambitious finger.
William Shakespeare
Friends can hurt you, but the possibility of pain with lovers is so much greater because your expectations are so high. You don't ask as much of your friends.
Ethan Hawke
In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.
John Ruskin
