If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
“C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.” — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the… — Gianfranco Ferre Copy Share Image
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them,… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create… — Jon Favreau Copy Share Image
When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“The architecture of the exhibit reflects the product's brand values, with its form, the tactile qualities of the materials, and the sound… — Philip Hughes Copy Share Image
The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York,… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris,… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be an architect when I was a kid, but I did a solid geometry course where we had… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years.… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
It may be unfathomable in architecture, but it is very practical, or routine, for a person in theater to use action. You… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux… — Eugene Atget Copy Share Image
Communication requires cultural context, and technology facilitates our ability to cross-reference ideas over time. Charles Moore were saying: Enough with the sterile,… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
“alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.” — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men. — Richard Nickel Copy Share Image
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
