A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before. — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture... — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do,… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the… — Ross Lovegrove Copy Share Image
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Our structure has always been two homes, and that's all my son has ever known. So you balance it. Make sure you… — Bridget Moynahan Copy Share Image
For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and mountain and river; I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau, and… — George Frisbie Hoar Copy Share Image
“Even if the intelligent design of some structure has been established, it still is a separate question whether a wise, powerful, and… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of… — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. — James Polshek Copy Share Image
Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome. — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement. — Samuel Copy Share Image
I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. — Neil Denari Copy Share Image
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back… — Gottfried Bohm Copy Share Image
“The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain. — Mr. Wrestling Copy Share Image
The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless. — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image