Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect. "

Eric Dane

Side

Architecture

Related Quotes:

" I call architecture frozen music. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music

Architecture

Frozen

" I'm not a big watcher of myself. You start looking at things you shouldn't be looking at that have nothing to do with anything of importance. "

" I couldn't comprehend a 35-year-old woman gravitating toward a 70-year-old man. "

" When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture. "

Jonathan Anderson

Cathedral

Grandfather

" I just try to leave my baggage at the door. I don't want to carry my stuff into a working environment with me, and I expect that from other people. If they can't do it, though, I'm surprisingly understanding. "

Eric Dane

People

Door

" I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture. "

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

" Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Real

Facts

Architecture

" Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. "

" I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody. "

" Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great. "

" Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place. "

" 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. "

" I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead. "

" 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. "

" 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

College

Drive

" Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. "

" I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I got in Conservatoire, my teachers would give me a lot of flack because I wasn't rehearsing my lines; I'd be doing stage management. I was interested in sound. I was interested in architecture. I was interested in every aspect of theatre. "

Robert Lepage

School

Architecture

" I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures. "

" I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. "

" The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. "

" The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. "

" Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch. "

" Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. "

" You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal. "

" But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic. "

" The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last. "

" 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. "

" Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride. "

" There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art. "