I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career?… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
“Within the overall structure of a project there is always room for individuality and craftsmanship… One hundred years from now, our engineering… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us,… — Frank Lloyd Wright 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
I think the general public's response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that… — Barry Schuler Copy Share Image
From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock &… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
“You’re standing in the middle of a blank piece of paper. Unleash your inner architect and design your path to success. Get… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
I thought architecture would offer a mix of the artful and practical. It seemed cooler than some of the other options in… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“AND SO THE STORY ENDS, bracketed by two architects: Daedalus, who built the Minoan labyrinth, and Ventris, who found the thread that… — Margalit Fox Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“A software architecture is defined by a configuration of architectural elements--components, connectors, and data--constrained in their relationships in order to achieve a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Montreal's a unique city, very fascinating stories of architecture and history, and it's this sort of bizarre mixture of Europe and North… — Chris Demetral Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you:… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
