Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art. "
John Lautner
Architecture
Dead
Art
Related Quotes:
" 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
Architecture
Character
Art
" One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful. "
Oksana Baiul
Beach
Water
Vacation
" The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders. "
Ma Yansong
Show
Own
Way
" The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. "
Milton Friedman
Government
Never
Science
" The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. "
John Updike
Bricks
Architecture
Consciousness
" The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities. "
Robert Pinsky
Look
Style
Poetry
" There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. "
John Baldacci
Theatre
Think
Now
" Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919. "
Martin Filler
Life
Brave
Art
" Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge. "
Jo Nesbo
Water
Architecture
Museum
" When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. "
Roman Coppola
Architecture
Art
Big
" My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books. "
Jude Deveraux
House
Drawing
Art
" Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new. "
Brian Grazer
Mind
Beautiful
People
" The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story. "
Simon Schama
Bible
History
Nature
" I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical? "
David Chipperfield
How
Years
Think
" The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. "
Annabelle Selldorf
Architecture
Eye
Secret
" You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up. "
Paul Keating
Life
Chance
Architecture
" I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. "
Alexander Jackson Davis
American
Architecture
Living
" Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture. "
Thomas Heatherwick
Energy
Culture
World
" Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. "
Zaha Hadid
Space
You
Place
" I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines. "
Francois Nars
More
Architecture
End
" 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. "
Enid Nemy
Building
Great
Architecture
" For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible. "
Bjarke Ingels
Possible
Life
End
" Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration. "
Thom Mayne
Beginning
Process
Cake
" Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth. "
Anne Fortier
Past
Age
Art
" To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. "
Ai Weiwei
Politics
Society
Work
" 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. "
Tadao Ando
Architecture
Space
People
" Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Slow
Structure
Architecture
" I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role. "
Thom Mayne
Change
Political
People
" Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite. "
Charles Jencks
Grace
Architecture
Modern
" As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality. "
Zaha Hadid
Woman
Architecture
Myself