Architecture Quotes - Page 33

• The history of art is the history of revivals.

  Samuel Butler

  Art, Revival, Art Is

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 8

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• Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

  Al Capp

  Sarcastic, Art, Abstract

  In National Observer 1 July 1963

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• Vision is the true creative rhythm.

  Robert Delaunay

  Creativity, Creative, Vision

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• Every artist writes his own autobiography.

  Havelock Ellis

  Art, Writing, Autobiography

  New Spirit (1890) "Tolstoi"

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• Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Thinking, Way

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

  Zaha Hadid

  Block, Believe, Differences

  "I don't do nice" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Tasks, May, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  Quincy Jones

  Frozen, Liquid, Ifs

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• Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Art, Men, Expression

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• I think about my work every minute of the day.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Thinking, Minutes

  Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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• The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Art, Principles, Bypass

  Jerzy Kosinski (2007). “Passing By: Selected Essays, 1962-1991”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Art, Inspire, Comfort

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

  Audre Lorde

  Life, Dream, Skeletons

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.38, Crossing Press

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• Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

  Jean Rostand

  Beauty, Art, Being Beautiful

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Eye, Hands

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.228, John Ruskin

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• My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Ambition, Support, Important

  "Architect of Optimism". Interview with Angel Gurria-Quintana, www.ft.com. April 13, 2007.

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• When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context.

  Jonathan Hale

  Attitude, House, Effort

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• And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Order, Play, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

  Zaha Hadid

  Degrees, Sticks, Architect

  "Master builder". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2003.

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• The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

  Louis Kahn

  Sun, Sides, Building

  "The Wurmanizer". www.wired.com. February 1, 2000.

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• Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

  Kenzo Tange

  Design, Today, Ordinary

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• Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Sculpture, Painting

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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• The future of architecture is culture.

  Philip Johnson

  Culture

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• Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

  Peter York

  Chandeliers, Jewellery

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• The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

  David Chipperfield

  Differences, Good And Bad

  "David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home". Interview with Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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