Architecture Quotes - Page 33

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  Tadao Ando

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

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• All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

  Tadao Ando

  Attachment, Design, Construction

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 12, 2007.

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• No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

  Theodore Bikel

  Art, Past, Heirlooms

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• 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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• The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Loss, Progressive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

  Paul Getty

  Art, Saws, Fine

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• Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

  Zaha Hadid

  Fashion, Space, Persons

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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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• Trying to force creativity is never good.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Art, Creativity, Trying

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• The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Business, Caves

  "Culture Is Our Business". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1970.

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• The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Mind, Wake Up

  "Conversations with Henry Miller".

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• I see music as fluid architecture.

  Joni Mitchell

  Fluid

  "POP MUSIC; Joni Mitchell Finds the Peace of Middle Age" by Stephen Holden. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1991.

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• Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Country, Struggle, Giving

  "Oscar Niemeyer, Architect Who Gave Brasi­lia Its Flair, Dies at 104" by Nicolai Ouroussoff, www.nytimes.com. December 5, 2012.

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• The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

  Novalis

  Music, Art, Artist

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