All Martin Filler Quotes
- What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To have the crucial… Art
- The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure… Acquisition
- The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to… Afresh
- The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure… Any
- Always beware an unsigned architectural design. Always Beware
- Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it. Any
- Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. Architecture
- Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. Architecture
- High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste. Among
- There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect. Architect
- Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways. Always Transcends
- A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque… Architect
- After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion… Act
- All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles… Achieve
- Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa,… Advances
- Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island… Architectural
- Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from… Addition
- As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it… Based
- Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving… Able
- Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and… Apprenticeship