Architecture Quotes - Page 29

• Architecture is art, nothing else.

  Philip Johnson

  Art

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• Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

  Philip Johnson

  Art, Space, Design

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• It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

  Fabio Novembre

  Difficult, Contemporary

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• Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

  Moshe Safdie

  Fashion, World, Timeless

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• There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

  Moshe Safdie

  Art, Profound, Different

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• Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

  Moshe Safdie

  Faster, Profession

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• Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

  Moshe Safdie

  Future, Past, Looking Forward

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• By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

  Peter York

  Art, Class, Symbolism

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• I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just the practical thing. That's why our TVs are rectangles. Even in modern architecture, they want us to believe, "That's the nicest, most beautiful thing." I love modern architecture, but actually it's that they cannot afford amorphous shapes or ornaments.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Beautiful, Believe, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sculpture, Frozen, Spirituality

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• Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Noses, Painting, Shows

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• As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

  Prince Charles

  Art, Technology, Drawing

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• For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

  Zaha Hadid

  Men, World, Gender

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

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• The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

  Zaha Hadid

  Art, Way, Painting

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

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• You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.

  Keren Ann

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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• I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in, and an awareness of the built environment, the 'store' has become a critical, perceptual and psychological component of merchandising as well as imaging. Architecture and fashion are partners.

  Charles Gwathmey

  Fashion, Color, Discipline

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• I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and Renaissance architecture and to hold a tube of Alizarin Madder Lake in my artist's hand and marvel at the shiny goop inside.

  Mark Kostabi

  Real, Artist, Lakes

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• I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Clothes, Important, Eras

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• Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

  Luis Barragan

  Men, Solitude, May

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• I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty. The words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement, all these have nestled in my soul. Though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.

  Luis Barragan

  Inspiration, Light, Justice

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• Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

  Bayard Taylor

  Beautiful, Flower, Scotland

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.69

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• I just hand shoes on the wall. They're architecture you know.

  Tori Amos

  Wall, Hands, Shoes

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• I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

  Rafael Moneo

  Able, Chains, Crucial

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• The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design.

  Michael Hansmeyer

  Reality, Drawing, Design

  "Sci-fi 'gothic' architecture brought to life" by Laura Allsop, www.cnn.com. April 8, 2011.

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• There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

  Frank Gehry

  Eye, Great Men

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