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" I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. "
Leon Krier
I Can
Architecture
I Am
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" Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. "
John Portman
Buildings
Way
People
" 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
History
Film
Art
" I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money. "
Shahid Khan
Architecture
Money
Early
" Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go. "
Andrew Pyper
Winter
Isolation
Architecture
" I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life. "
Doug TenNapel
Life
Purpose
Believe
" What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? "
Bernard Levin
War
World
Pain
" Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. "
Walter Gropius
Future
Architecture
Together
" There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. "
Moshe Safdie
Architecture
Profound
Different
" Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. "
Frank Gehry
Architecture
City
Believe
" Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that every project is brand new. I am forced to renew myself with every project. Isn't that wonderful? "
Cesar Pelli
My Life
Life
I Am
" There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. "
James Henry Breasted
Time
Place
Art
" In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas. "
Elizabeth Diller
Art
School
Architecture
" All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! "
T. E. Lawrence
Architecture
Bad
Will
" I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves. "
Anika Noni Rose
Walk
Architecture
Beautiful
" Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. "
Frank Gehry
Architecture
World
Vacation
" As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it. "
Elizabeth Diller
Student
Architecture
Been
" Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. "
Alvar Aalto
Architecture
Problems
Life
" You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country? "
Patricia Marx
Architecture
Start
Culture
" Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. "
Kenzo Tange
Great
Society
Architecture
" I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. "
Barry Mann
Studying
Architecture
College
" We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests. "
Elizabeth Diller
Architecture
Work
Kind
" Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know. "
John Lautner
Architecture
Time
Life
" After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. "
Harry Seidler
Italy
Much
Visual
" We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons. "
Jeff Fortenberry
Care
Health
New
" 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
Planning
Acting
Architecture
" Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. "
Martin Filler
Short-Lived
Architecture
Profession
" Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation of any technology we may have in mind. "
Pranav Mistry
Mind
Architecture
Technology
" It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape. "
I. M. Pei
Architecture
Myself
Think
" 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
Choose
Art
Architecture
" I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. "
Helmut Jahn
Strive
Nothing
Architecture