Architecture Quote by Claes Oldenburg

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures,…

— Gauri Khan

I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which…

— Clarence John Laughlin

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I…

— Maya Lin

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

— Oscar Niemeyer

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit…

— Yoshio Taniguchi

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about:…

— Ma Yansong

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea…

— Russell Brand

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I liked the idea of architectural games - you're always building and rebuilding. And I still thought of myself in opposition. I thought, If…

— Vito Acconci

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in…

— Thom Mayne

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

— Minoru Yamasaki

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a…

— Nicole Krauss