Architecture Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• 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 involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

  Thom Mayne

  Art, Interesting, World

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• The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Art, Food, Numbers

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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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• Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

  Trevor Paglen

  Art, Real, Space

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• The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of Washington. It is one the best designed buildings in D.C. in the last decade.

  Zelda Fichandler

  Important, Pieces, Landscape

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

  Helmut Jahn

  Taken, Strive

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• Architects cannot teach nature anything.

  Mark Twain

  Architect, Teach, Lecturer

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.319, Courier Corporation

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• The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

  Samuel

  Practice, Engagement, Participation

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• The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

  Aga Khan IV

  Mean, Awards, Trying

  Interview with Robert Ivy, www.architecturalrecord.com. February 1, 2002.

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• Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.

  Samuel

  Social Values, Addresses, Aesthetic

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• Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

  Jean Nouvel

  Cinema, Movement, Dimensions

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• The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Fighting, People, Groups

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• Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication. The quality of civilization can be measured through its music, dance, drama, architecture, visual art and literature. We must give our children knowledge and understanding of civilization's most profound works.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Art, Children, Drama

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• The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

  Antoine Predock

  Long, Landscape, Concepts

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• For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Hair, Elements, Humans

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• Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

  Cedric Price

  Problem, Problem Solvers, Realisation

  Cedric Price (2003). “Re: CP”, p.136, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Self, Feelings

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• I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

  Sydney Pollack

  Photography, Art, Writing

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• The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Christian, Rome

  "The Problem" l. 19 (1847)

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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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