Architecture Quotes - Page 29

• The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Egypt, Pyramids, Lasts

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• Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

  Marcel Breuer

  Attitude, Style, Modern

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• Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

  James Polshek

  Art, Healing, Beautification

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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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• I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

  Joe Elliott

  Years, Europe, Cities

  "How to travel like a rock star". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. January 23, 2008.

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• Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or artsy-craftsy architecture. It is a matter of respect for things existing, subtle patterns of place woven from vistas and street widths and the siting and color and scale of stores, houses, and trees... If the countryside is to prosper, it must be different from city or suburb... The difference is in part the simple business of containing our towns and giving them boundaries.

  Robert Christopher Riley

  Simple, Land, Cities

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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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• The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

  Charlie Chaplin

  People, Special, Building

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• Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

  Richard Meier

  Thinking, People, Polemics

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• Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Frozen, Liquid, Music Is

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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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• If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

  Louis Kahn

  Art, People, Want

  Louis I. Kahn (1983). “ルイス・カーン: 発想と意味”

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• I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Thinking, Play, Discipline

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• The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

  Thom Mayne

  Thinking, Ideas, Added Value

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• The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

  Le Corbusier

  Struggle, Light

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• Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

  Richard Meier

  Night, Light, Doe

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• I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

  Thom Mayne

  Ideas, Vision, World

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• To create something to dream about, I need exceptional women, locations and architectures.

  Thierry Mugler

  Dream, Needs, Location

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• You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

  Ben Nicholson

  Heaven, Vision, Earth

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• I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

  Oren Peli

  Apples, Facts, Macs

  "Oren Peli: 'I'm not a nerd or a luddite, I'm a geek really'". Interview With Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.

  Ruta Sepetys

  New Orleans, Cities, America

  "Ruta Sepetys. Seeker Of Lost Stories". FAQ, rutasepetys.com.

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• By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

  Martin Filler

  Years, Design, Style

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• I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Design

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

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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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• 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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