Abuse Quote by Alvar Aalto

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

— Eduardo Souto de Moura

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

— Peter Zumthor

The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this…

— Kenneth Clark

No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind.

— S. S. Rajamouli

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

— Paul Laffoley

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into…

— Jonathan Lethem

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that…

— Victor Hugo

It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

— Richard Steele

The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so important. Sometimes…

— Tom of Finland

“Why didn’t I become an architect? Answer: Because I thought the sheets of paper on which I was to pour my dreams were blank.…

— Iain Borden

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long…

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have…

— Brent Iverson