Architecture Quotes - Page 24

• A painting that is well composed is half finished.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Art, Half, Painting

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• There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems we must not neglect. For example, energy, resources, costs, social aspects - one must always pay attention to all these.

  Eduardo Souto de Moura

  Intelligent, Energy, Example

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• God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

  Alvar Aalto

  Drawing, Abuse, Purpose

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• Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

  Alvar Aalto

  Civilization, Culture

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• 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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• He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.

  Michelangelo

  Beauty, Principles, Doe

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• It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts.

  Andy Clark

  Art, Inspiration, Design

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• There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.

  Lenny Kravitz

  New Orleans, Things In Life, People

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• I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

  I. M. Pei

  Art, Believe, Foundation

  I. M. Pei (1983). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1983: Presented to Ieoh Ming Pei”

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• Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

  I. M. Pei

  Life, Eye, Reflection

  1989 Les Grands desseins du Louvre (with E J Biasini).

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• Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  I. M. Pei

  Times Have Changed, Roots, Want

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• I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Two, Differences, Design

  Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Exercise, Design, Furniture

  Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Fighting, House, Design

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• Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

  Robert Evans

  Depressing, Creativity, Principles

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• I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

  Toyo Ito

  Thinking, Pieces, Clothings

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• Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

  Le Corbusier

  Eye, Light, Play

  Le Corbusier (2013). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

  Edwin Arnold

  Passion, Stones, Taj Mahal

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• I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

  Helmut Jahn

  Taken, Strive

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