Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. — Peter York Copy Share Image
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built. — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes. — Will Self Copy Share Image
If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake. — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons. — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of… — Zelda Fichandler Copy Share Image
Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is… — Raimund Abraham Copy Share Image
Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many… — Kleber Mendonca Filho Copy Share Image
“If we close our eyes and take a deep breath, and summon meaningful memories, we quickly notice that they are tied to… — Sarah Robinson Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“I’m relieved to see that even brilliant physicists make mistakes.” Kohler looked over. “What do you mean?” “Whoever wrote that note made… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“The first and last lesson of the useful arts is that Nature tyrannizes over our works. They must be conformed to her… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I always want to encourage young artists. As the budgets get smaller, that might provide an opening for younger artists and more… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
“In my previous murals, I had tried to achieve a harmony in my painting with the architecture of the building. But to… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
