Building Quote by Donald Judd Download Open image “If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.” — Donald Judd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Building Chairs Engineering Inspirational Ridiculous
A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building. — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but that if God ever gets up, they take the… — Karen Moyer Copy Share Image
I try to make my things aesthetically pleasing; but, if it isn’t functional, people will ‘oo’ and ‘aah’ over it in an exhibit but… — Sam Maloof Copy Share Image
When a building is so complete within itself, I always think, "Why do I even have to go inside it?" I would love to… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
In tech, people want an object for what's inside it, what it does. You need to make a defensive design that people won't walk… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself — Finn Juhl Copy Share Image
“A collection of chairs seems to show someone that is used to resting while others get the work done. I have no use for… — Kat Daughtry Copy Share Image
But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting. — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right,… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose. — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for. — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation, — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image