Bad Ass Quotes

530 Bad Ass quotes by 288 unique authors

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect. — Daniel Libeskind
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche. — Cesar Pelli
I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to… — Unknown Author
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. — Daniel Libeskind
An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use. — Bruno Munari
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but… — Zaha Hadid
Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest. — Unknown Author
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano
Home is where you hang your architect. — Clare Boothe Luce
The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God… — Richard Saul Wurman
When we build, let us think that we build forever. — John Ruskin
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry
There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building… — David Chipperfield
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of… — Oscar Niemeyer
The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky
In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all… — Oskar Schlemmer
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all… — Honore de Balzac
Form ever follows function. — Louis Sullivan
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models… — Maya Lin
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in… — Unknown Author
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet

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