Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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• I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Myself

• Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He did not make many enemies, and he had the ability to persuade people with that soft tone and very reasonable style of his. He's always been exceptionally good as the right-hand man.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

  

  Nancy Banks Smith
  • Experience
  • Door
  • Architecture

• I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Style
  • Try
  • Trapped

• Architecture is invention.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Architecture
  • Invention

• We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Style

• Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Forever

• I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Style

• 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
  • Help
  • Nature
  • Light

• If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Life
  • World
  • Bad

• Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Style
  • Path
  • Journey

• Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor’s love wrought in living stones.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Proud
  • Architecture

• A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Democracy
  • Architecture

• The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • Wonder
  • Satan

• I don't want to put myself in any kind of a box as far as my sound goes, because being an artist is fluid. If you look at a painter's work, a lot of times, it's similar in style, but other times - over even a year's period - it can change so much. I'm just going with the flow.

  

  Luke Combs
  • Work
  • Style
  • Period

• To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • History
  • Architecture
  • Meaningful

• Being a background singer is one thing, but being on stage as the star is something else again. When you walk out there with all those people staring at you, it's like you're naked to the world. And I hate being criticized.

  

  Brenda Russell
  • People
  • World
  • Hate

• The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Done
  • Soul
  • Wind

• We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

  

  Paul Bloom
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Style
  • Wonder
  • Architecture