William Mackergo Taylor Quotes

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

William Mackergo Taylor

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• I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Music
  • Science

• 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 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
  • Happy
  • College

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

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Architecture
  • Frozen

• The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Serious
  • Architecture
  • Obstacles

• 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

• To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Literature
  • Movement
  • Fantasy

• 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 Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Internet
  • Architecture

• Architecture is invention.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Architecture
  • Invention

• I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Architecture

• 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

• My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Photography
  • Architecture

• Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Good
  • Literature
  • Gothic

• I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Science
  • Literature

• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• 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

• Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

  

  Friedensreich Hundertwasser
  • Long
  • Art
  • Freedom

• When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Society
  • Freedom

• It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

  

  Nicholas Offerman
  • Growing Up
  • Around
  • Artistic

• To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Past

• There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • World
  • Good
  • Feeling

• It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

  

  William Mackergo Taylor
  • Architecture
  • Splendid
  • Extravagance