Architecture Quotes - Page 23

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

  Toyo Ito

  Thinking, Pieces, Clothings

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

  Vidal Sassoon

  Hair, Elements, Humans

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• When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Essentials, Philosopher

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• Architecture
  is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it,
  we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the
  human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a
  beautiful context for life's drama.

  Frank Gehry

  Beautiful, Drama, Believe

  Casey C. M. Mathewson, Frank O. Gehry (2007). “Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works : 1969 to Today”, Firefly Books Limited

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• There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

  Roger Scruton

  Lines, May, Closure

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• A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

  Christian Dior

  Dresses, Female, Pieces

  "Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New". Book by Marie France Pochna (p. 170), 1996.

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• L’architecture est art de suggestion.

  Daniel Pennac

  Art, Suggestions

  Daniel Pennac (2012). “La Petite marchande de prose - La saga Malaussène”, p.122, Editions Gallimard

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• One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

  Aldo Rossi

  Life, Cities, Study

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• If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Art, House, Tasks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Architecture is an expression of values.

  Norman Foster

  Expression, Values

  Interview with Max Tholl, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. October 16, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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