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" If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture. "

Sydney Pollack

Light

People

Time

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" Architecture is politics. "

Mitchell Kapor

Politics

Architecture

" If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right. "

" I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus. "

" God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. "

Alvar Aalto

Purpose

Drawing

" Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. "

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

" From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do. "

" If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years. "

" This thing called chemistry, which I can't define and wouldn't know how to, either works or it doesn't. Sometimes a love story can involve very talented actors, but we are not invested emotionally in whether they end up together. "

" There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. "

" 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. "

" I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. "

Maya Lin

Art

Looking

" To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge. "

" We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements. "

" Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? "

" If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong. "

" Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. "

" There isn't a studio in the world that wouldn't burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie. "

" Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. "

" There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money. "

" Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. "

" I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. "

" Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman? "

" I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. "

" Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness. "

" The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. "

" It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness. "

" I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing. "

" Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song. "

" 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. "