To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress, — Madeleine Vionnet Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons. — Edwin Lutyens Copy Share Image
The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing… — Roksanda Ilincic Copy Share Image
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
My father was an architect and I grew up knowing more about planning regulations and the constraints of old buildings than most… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to… — Andy Clark Copy Share Image
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’.… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
In 500 years, English has changed a lot, and right now we're undergoing an extremely rapid rate of accelerated advancement in terms… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“A recurrent theme of this book is that architects, fairly low in the chain of command and needing jobs, are prone to… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Working with Joe [Kosinski], definitely. I loved working with Joe. For a guy who doesn't really come from the fiction world -… — James Frain Copy Share Image
I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects.… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
It is hard not to be inspired when you're living in New York. It doesn't matter what you do. I think that… — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
“Googie architecture could...be seen in its finest flowering among the essentially homogeneous and standardized enterprises of roadside commercial strips: hot-dog stands in… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. — Julia Morgan Copy Share Image
I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure. — Marcel Breuer Copy Share Image