A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. — James Wyatt Copy Share Image
I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture. — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.” — E'yen A. Gardner Copy Share Image
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
“Architects have to know everything there is to know about a space. You have to know its past and present. That way… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture. — Bernard Rudofsky Copy Share Image
People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
My husband John's and my breaks are often very culture heavy. He cannot pass a museum without venturing inside, so we tend… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now… — John Baldacci Copy Share Image
The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the generation before us, like John Barth and all of those pomo dudes who had that idea of,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
For me, architecture is an art the same as painting is an art or sculpture is an art. Yet, architecture moves a… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I sell architecture better and more directly and more vividly than the architect does... The average architect is stupid. He doesn't know… — Julius Shulman Copy Share Image
When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.” — Beatriz Colomina Copy Share Image
I ended up as an American Studies Major but my real interest was architecture. — Steve Purdy Copy Share Image
