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" All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. "

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" At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. "

" I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings. "

" Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful. "

" It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. "

David Allan Coe

" I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. "

" I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. "

" You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture. "

" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "

" You cannot not know history. "

" Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.' "

Antoine Predock

" There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. "

" Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. "

" The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture. "

" 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. "

" Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture. "

" The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. "

" Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel. "

" I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. "

" Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. "

" I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. "

" The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible. "

" Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going. "

" 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. "

" Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area. "

" I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I? "

" Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process. "

" Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. "

Christian Louboutin

" Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. "

" I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical? "

David Chipperfield