Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make?… — Masa Takayama Copy Share Image
I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
Tottenham are a very big club, big in structure. I'm impressed with this, and I'm happy to come here. — Lucas Moura Copy Share Image
If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Conscientious people like structure, so for them, a solution to immigration should be orderly, and a wall embodied that. — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
A work based only on a line concept is scarcely more than a illustration; it fails to achieve pictorial structure. Pictorial structure… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As… — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Let us summarize these three points more concisely: (a) The rejection of art as a mere emotional, individualistic, and romantic affair. (b)… — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
“Vivian’s first impression of Solidago was that she had travelled back in time, but not to a time where architecture had been… — Louise Blackwick Copy Share Image
“She gasped. “You know what your problem is? You don’t take yourself… or anything… seriously enough!” She sat rigidly, her teeth and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[T]he ideals and desires of the majority define the structure of society as it is; a would-be mass movement that pursues a… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
I have a fairly unwieldy set of concerns that go into determining what I do in the paintings, such as the history… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men. — Richard Nickel Copy Share Image
“alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.” — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
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