Architecture Quotes - Page 15

• Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Literature, Painting

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• The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.

  Jandy Nelson

  Fall, Thinking, Air

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• It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

  Anne Ursu

  Talking, White, Perfect

  Anne Ursu (2011). “Breadcrumbs”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Temples, Building

  "Making Money". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2007.

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• Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Men, Mind

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• When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do, who can walk with me, from room to sorrowful room, making the whole rambling structure of wind and emptiness not quite as scary, as lonely as it was before.

  Jandy Nelson

  Lonely, Grief, Wind

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.59, Penguin

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• The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Effort

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.413, BookCaps Study Guides

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• You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.

  Kristin Hannah

  Lying, Thinking, Careers

  Kristin Hannah (2009). “The Things We Do for Love: A Novel”, p.382, Ballantine Books

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• ...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Children, Sleep

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Travel, Romance

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.134, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed people. She missed human intrigue, drama and power struggles. She needed her own species, not to talk to, necessarily, but just to be among, as a bystander in a crowd or an anonymous witness.

  Ruth Ozeki

  New York, Drama, Struggle

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• Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Ice, Sea, Stories

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.5, Granta Books

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• The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Mother, Art

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• When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

  John Ruskin

  Father, Future, Men

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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• Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

  Franz Liszt

  Inspiring, Art, Destiny

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• We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Political, Society, Politics

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• The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Change, Ambition, Organization

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• The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Dance, Art, Our World

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They are fashioned by those who encounter them after they are built. The essential feature of a landmark is not its design, but the place it holds in a city's memory. Compared to the place it occupies in social history, a landmark's artistic qualities are incidental.

  Herbert Muschamp

  Memories, Cities, History

  "The Secret History of 2 Columbus Circle" by Herbert Muschamp, www.nytimes.com. January 8, 2006.

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• Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

  Michelangelo

  Education, Teacher, Art

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• The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Drawing, Hands

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• Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

  George Nelson

  Design, Cooking, Spirit

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• Home is where you hang your head.

  Groucho Marx

  Home, Sweet Home, Where Home Is

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.40, Da Capo Press

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• Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations take shape. Let us confirm the power of our humanity by giving architecture and substance to the dreams we have for our nation, so that the promised land of social and economic justice that is within our dreams will soon be within our sight.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Dream, Sight, Land

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• The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

  Louis Kahn

  Badass, Bad Ass, Doe

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