Architecture Quotes - Page 8

• An important work of architecture will create polemics.

  Richard Meier

  Important, Polemics, Important Work

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• A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Art, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.414

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• Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.

  Charles Kingsley

  Eye, Two, Curves

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers”, p.405

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• [It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

  Robert Moses

  Cities, Taste, Structure

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• One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

  Aldo Rossi

  Memories, Cities, Collective Memory

  Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman (1982). “Architettura Della Città”, p.130, MIT Press

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• A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Men, Building

  "Onlogic: Speed and Vision". Book by Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lénárd, 2008.

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• Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Light, Energy

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Simplicity, Design, Comfort

  Jennifer Fandel, Frank Lloyd Wright (2005). “Frank Lloyd Wright”, The Creative Company

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• Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Art, Husband

  1860 The Conduct of Life,'Wealth'.

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• I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Thinking, Kind

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• Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

  Paul Goldberger

  Bears, Building, Structure

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• Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Men, Sight

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.7

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• Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

  Osbert Lancaster

  Frozen, May

  Osbert Lancaster (1975). “A cartoon history of architecture”, Harvard Common Pr

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• I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Want, Furniture, Designer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Cities, Littles

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.122, John Ruskin

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• Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Hands, Intention, Honorable

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.471, Open Road Media

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• Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Giving, Age, Taste

  Lady Morgan (Sydney) (1859). “An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography”, p.165

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• My favorite project is always the next one.

  Michael Graves

  Work, Design, Next

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• The higher the building the lower the morals.

  Noel Coward

  Literature, Morality, Building

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• Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

  Barbara Kruger

  Moving, First Love, Night

  Art in America, Volume 85, Nr. 10-12, 1997.

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• Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

  John C. Portman, Jr.

  People, Way, Building

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• Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

  Arthur Erickson

  Spiritual, Moving, Space

  As quoted in "The Ultimate Book of Quotations edited by Joseph Demakis" by Joseph Demakis, (p. 13), 2012.

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• Art should be created for life, not for the museum

  Jean Nouvel

  Life, Art, Museums

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

  Adolf Loos

  Badass, Bad Ass, Men

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• The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.

  Pablo Picasso

  People, Sculpture, Athens

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