The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
“The architect of the walls around me is the fear within me. And if I have foolishly granted this architect full license… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
The strong structure of sustainable rapport can't be built with the truth of weak bricks cemented with vested-interest mortar and the relationship… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“Steiner's teachings begin and end with man but in between is humankind, the earth, the cosmos. Architecture is the same: it too… — Kenneth Bayes Copy Share Image
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers.… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts… — Bill Hillier Copy Share Image
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor.… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion… — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Copy Share Image
I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Unesco can rightly be claimed as one of Britain's greatest contributions to that global architecture of peace, and for Penny Mordaunt to… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure… — William Drenttel Copy Share Image
It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit… — Bernard Darwin Copy Share Image
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“architecture to spiritually uplift and thought it was a very bad idea to build functional, uninspired blocks of flats that would depress… — Menna van Praag Copy Share Image
New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
