Architecture Quotes
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You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
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I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
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I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.
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Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
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I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
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To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
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The principal element of Suprematism in painting, as in architecture, is its liberation from all social or materialist tendencies. Through Suprematism, art comes into its pure and unpolluted form. It has acknowledged the decisive fact of the nonobjective character of sensibility. It is no longer concerned with illusion.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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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.
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The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
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The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame.
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In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
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I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.
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Architecture aims at Eternity.
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Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.
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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.
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In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.
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Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.
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Architecture is invention.
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I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.
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I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.
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I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
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There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.
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I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
