Famous Quotes
- I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
- Tim Gunn on Architecture
- I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
- Arne Jacobsen on Architecture
- I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
- Kenzo Tange on Architecture
- I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
- Trey Parker on Architecture
- I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
- Philip Johnson on Architecture
- I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
- Alexander Jackson Davis on Architecture
- I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
- Michael Graves on Architecture
- I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
- Maya Lin on Architecture
- I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.
- Giambattista Valli on Architecture
- I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
- Jean Nouvel on Architecture
- I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
- Gates McFadden on Architecture
- 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 on Architecture
- I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
- Maya Lin on Architecture
- I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
- Sydney Pollack on Architecture
- I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
- Bob Dylan on Architecture
- I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
- Maya Lin on Architecture
- I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
- Barry Mann on Architecture
- I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
- Oscar Niemeyer on Architecture
- I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
- Michael Graves on Architecture
- I see music as fluid architecture.
- Joni Mitchell on Architecture
- I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
- Ai Weiwei on Architecture
- I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
- Helmut Jahn on Architecture
- 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.
- Daniel Libeskind on Architecture
- I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
- Alex Winter on Architecture
- I think architecture has to be a gift.
- Jean Nouvel on Architecture
- I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
- George Hickenlooper on Architecture
- I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
- Maya Lin on Architecture
- I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
- Art Garfunkel on Architecture
- I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.
- James Stewart on Architecture
- I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Architecture
- I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.
- Joseph Kosinski on Architecture
- I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
- William Devane on Architecture
- I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
- Catherine Deneuve on Architecture
- I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
- Tadao Ando on Architecture
- I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.
- James Maslow on Architecture
- I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
- Charlie Rose on Architecture
- I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.
- Caroline Wozniacki on Architecture
- I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
- Brad Pitt on Architecture
- I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
- Thom Mayne on Architecture
- I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
- Joe Elliott on Architecture
- I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.
- Oren Peli on Architecture
- If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
- Arne Jacobsen on Architecture
- If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
- Arne Jacobsen on Architecture
- If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
- Quincy Jones on Architecture
- If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
- Michael Mandelbaum on Architecture
- If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
- Michael Graves on Architecture
- If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.
- Minoru Yamasaki on Architecture
- If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
- Tadao Ando on Architecture
- If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
- Ben Nicholson on Architecture
- In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
- Arne Jacobsen on Architecture
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