God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 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
It seems to me now that the deep structures [in writing] are often subconscious and set in childhood. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
The architecture in Barcelona is very unique, and I think it's something to truly spend some time getting to know all the… — Marc Gasol Copy Share Image
Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid -… — Amanda Hearst Copy Share Image
The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“the architecture student from number eleven presses his face to the glass and looks at the way the light falls through the… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate. — Appius Claudius Caecus Copy Share Image
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our… — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Great education defies structure because it is always (always!) individualized, personalized, interactive, nimble, responsive and inspired.” — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
“Buckminster Fuller explained to me once that because our world is constructed from geometric relations like the Golden Ratio or the Fibonacci… — Einar Thorsteinn Copy Share Image
In the United States alone, 450 billion square feet of glass facade is produced every year. What if we could take this… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“When he first saw the little room with the glass balcony, Mr. Liechtenstein immediately thought of the archaic aristocratic English garden concept… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
