Architecture Quotes · Page 78

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— Thom Mayne

Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are.

— Mario Bellini

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such…

— Joseph Addison

François Mitterrand was a student of architecture, he had done a lot of research before he called me. He said, "You did…

— I. M. Pei

Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in…

— Edith Wharton

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

— Steve Martin

Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as…

— Ben van Berkel

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

— Marshall McLuhan

I had to architect my life where I could raise my children.

— Damon Dash

Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to…

— Lyall Watson

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

— Alvar Aalto

The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves…

— Alain de Botton

A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest…

— Ma Yansong

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the…

— Sydney Pollack

What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We…

— Berenice Abbott

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

— Philip Johnson

I think there has only ever been one member of the Federal Parliament from either side found to have been corrupt in…

— George Brandis

Working with Joe [Kosinski], definitely. I loved working with Joe. For a guy who doesn't really come from the fiction world -…

— James Frain

I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture.

— John Rocha

The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential…

— Freeman Dyson

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

— Ivan Chtcheglov

The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the…

— Amartya Sen

Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old…

— Richard Rogers

Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music,…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer…

— Tom McDonough