Architect Quotes - Page 2

• Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

  William S. Burroughs

  Real, Artist, Mind

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

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• Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

  What We Live By (1932) pt. 2, ch. 12

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• Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Mean, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Kaufmann, Ben Raeburn (1960). “Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings”

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• Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

  Philip Johnson

  Funny, Art, Badass

  New York Times 27 Dec. 1964, p. 9E

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• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Stay Strong

  "The Wright Style". Book by Carla Lind, p. 3, 1992.

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• Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

  Louis Kahn

  Design, Architecture, Reaching

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• A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

  Walter Gropius

  Democracy, Architecture, Modern

  "Words of Art: Inspiring Quotes from the Masters". Book published by Adams Media, 2013.

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• I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

  Ben Nicholson

  Cities, Jerusalem, Addresses

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• Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

  John C. Portman, Jr.

  Believe, Past, Space

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• In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

  Arthur Erickson

  Country, Artist, Technique

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• The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Names, Historical

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• Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

  Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

  Music, Space, Frozen

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• One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

  Renzo Piano

  Badass, Bad Ass, Architecture

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• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Witty, Badass, Mistake

  The New York Times Magazine, October 04, 1953.

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Infinity, Principles, Gothic

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.199

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• I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

  Frank Gehry

  Badass, Bad Ass, People

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• Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

  Yoshio Taniguchi

  Hope, Badass, Bad Ass

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• The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

  Luis Barragan

  Art, Mean, Vision

  Acceptance speech fot the Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1980.

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• I learn more from creative people in other disciplines than I do even from other architects because I think they have a way of looking at the world that is really important.

  Tom Kundig

  Thinking, Discipline, People

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• The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

  Mario Botta

  Badass, Inspiration, Bad Ass

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• All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

  Philip Johnson

  Badass, Bad Ass, Space

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• The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Dream, Talking, House

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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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• I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

  Sandra Bullock

  Home, Hobbies, Want

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• My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

  Christopher Durang

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  "Family Survival". Interview with Arthur Holmberg, americanrepertorytheater.org.

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