I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy… — Robin Day Copy Share Image
“All the gifts which fortune bestows she can easily take away; but education, when combined with intelligence, never fails, but abides steadily… — Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic,… — Keerthy Suresh Copy Share Image
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
From Brighton to Bradford, from Suffolk to Somerset, I have explored some remarkable buildings and structures that, in different ways, have helped… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time… — Jessica Seinfeld Copy Share Image
While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture,… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
The strategic agreement with Rockchip is an example of Intel’s commitment to take pragmatic and different approaches to grow our presence in… — Brian Krzanich Copy Share Image
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts.… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in.… — John Hench Copy Share Image
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
With the beginning of any record for an artist there's a certain amount of time of finding the blueprint and trying to… — Dr. Luke Copy Share Image
Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
