Architecture Quotes - Page 26

• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

  Bob Dylan

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

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• The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Internet, Incredibles, Democratization

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• Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.

  H. L. Mencken

  Beautiful, Half, Useless

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• Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Difficult, Irrevocable

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• If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Together, Arches, Want

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Egypt, Pyramids, Lasts

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• The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Melancholy, Human Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.382, Harvard University Press

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

  Marcel Breuer

  Attitude, Style, Modern

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• Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.

  Gaetano Pesce

  Art, Kings, Queens

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• I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

  John Updike

  Sometimes, Good And Bad, Where You Stand

  John Updike (1991). “Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.

  Andre Malraux

  Stars, Night, Men

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• Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

  John Ruskin

  Watches, Looks, Building

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• I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.

  Giambattista Valli

  Rome, Style, Bangs

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• I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

  Hussein Chalayan

  Creative, Parent

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• Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.

  Andre Gide

  Dwelling Place, Perfect, Attention

  "Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality". Book by André Gide, "Characters," p. 299, 1964.

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• The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Jobs, Age, Difficult

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

  George Santayana

  Lovely, Promise, Ruins

  George Santayana (1944). “Persons and Places”

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• Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

  John Howe

  Art, Inspiration, Europe

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• The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

  Theodor Schwenk

  Law, People, Secret

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• Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

  Alvar Aalto

  Ties, Earth, Locals

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• Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

  Alvar Aalto

  Ideas, Creative, Needs

  Alvar Aalto, Alvar Aalto-museo (1994). “Alvar Aalto: points of contact”

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• Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

  Jonathan Raban

  Art, Real, Men

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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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