Anthony Lawlor Quotes

Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain the record of the minds that conceived them and the hands that crafted them.

Anthony Lawlor

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• I made my first movie when I was five.

  

  Abigail Breslin
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• Donald Trump has made it clear that he regards Hungary highly.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Music
  • Thinking
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• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
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  • Architecture

• I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • School
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• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Party
  • Justice

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Lost

• The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • City
  • Human
  • Architecture

• The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Always
  • Made
  • One Thing

• 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

• I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• I steal from every movie ever made.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Made
  • Ever

• And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me - the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Power
  • Space
  • Architecture

• At the apogee of the state's evolution, architecture was monumental, and the ruling class were exalted as a pseudospecies. The sacred rites of statehood became the central focus of religion.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Focus
  • Architecture

• I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

  

  James Polshek
  • Art
  • Architecture
  • Healing

• Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Life
  • Men
  • Culture

• Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Architecture

• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  

  Peter Abelard
  • World
  • God
  • Death

• We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Thinking
  • Universe
  • Motivational

• We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Beauty
  • Understand
  • Life is

• Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain the record of the minds that conceived them and the hands that crafted them.

  

  Anthony Lawlor
  • Made
  • Architecture
  • Memory