Architecture Quotes - Page 21

• The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture

  Alvar Aalto

  Essence, Style, Development

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

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• If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Art, Coffee, Apples

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.313, Univ of California Press

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• Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Trying, Rock N Roll

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• My painting does not come from the easel.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Doe, Painting

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

  E. B. White

  Grandma, Looks, Littles

  "The Old and the New". The New Yorker, June 19, 1937.

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• Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.

  Anish Kapoor

  Art, Creative, Mythology

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• When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Art, Done

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• Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

  Kary Mullis

  Fashion, Art, Arbitrary

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• When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

  Jim Hodges

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

  Robert Delaunay

  Art, Horror, Constraints

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• Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

  Robert Delaunay

  Art, Light, Color

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• I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

  Robert Indiana

  Thinking, Long, Poetry

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• I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

  Robert Indiana

  Art, Pops, Artist

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• I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art

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

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• Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.

  Carl Magnusson

  Inspiration, Design, Way

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• Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group space. In this sense architecture serves our institutions and expresses the values of our culture.

  Robert L. Geddes

  Inspiration, Animal, Space

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• The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

  Samuel Mockbee

  Inspiration, Heart, Hands

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• A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Way, Building

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• Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.

  Roger Scruton

  Morning, Inspiration, Exercise

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• The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.

  Philip Johnson

  Spiritual, Religious, Inspiration

  Philip Johnson (1979). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1979: Presented to Philip Johnson”

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• The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

  Samuel Mockbee

  Inspiration, Everyday, Exceptional

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• I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

  Ken Yeang

  Thinking, Building, Should

  "CNN" Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

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

  Toyo Ito

  Needs, Use, Language

  "Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2013.

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• In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Thinking, People, New Life

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• Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

  Thom Mayne

  Communication, Behaviour, Environment

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