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" Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. "
Martin Mull
Architecture
Writing
Music
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" The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. "
Maya Lin
Want
Architecture
Art
" I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught. "
Walter Gropius
I Am
Ideas
Myself
" The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture
Art
Quality
" When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting. "
Ma Yansong
World
Architecture
Thought
" 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. "
Richard Meier
Work
Architecture
Good
" Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us. "
Magnus Larsson
Sand
Way
Architecture
" I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city. "
Toyo Ito
City
People
Live
" My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. "
Parker Stevenson
Always
Photography
Most
" Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. "
Arthur Erickson
Architecture
Unique
Great
" You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. "
Walter Russell Mead
You
Architecture
Car
" I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. "
Frances Mayes
Food
Art
Architecture
" Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce. "
David Chipperfield
Up
Architecture
Good
" Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. "
Maya Lin
Architecture
Art
Me
" Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings... it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on the move here, and there's a lot going on. There are some wonderful architecture and some not-so-wonderful. "
John Rocha
Me
City
Architecture
" To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment. "
Leon Max
Architecture
Clean
Fashion
" Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control. "
Martin Filler
Architecture
Within
Quality
" Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. "
Coco Chanel
Design
Fashion
Matter
" The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like a boring box with a basement full of machinery to make it inhabitable. As a result, buildings literally started to look identical all over the planet. "
Bjarke Ingels
Look
Architecture
End
" I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. "
Roger Waters
Happy
Architecture
Game
" Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for. "
Charles Jencks
Different
Only
Modern
" 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. "
Paul Bettany
Architecture
You
Think
" Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. "
Ernest Dimnet
Most
Arts
Architecture
" I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us. "
Daniel Libeskind
Like
New York
New
" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "
Frank Gehry
Dull
Dry
Want
" Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work. "
Alvar Aalto
Ideas
Time
World
" Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. "
Frank Gehry
Me
Architecture
City
" We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. "
Minoru Yamasaki
Architecture
Build
Buildings
" Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. "
Steve Martin
Music
Talking
Architecture
" I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical? "
David Chipperfield
How
Years
Think
" Architecture, by definition, is always standing still. "
Elizabeth Diller
Architecture
Still
Standing