Architecture Quote by Ettore Sottsass Download Open image “My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.” — Ettore Sottsass ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Design Exercise Fitness Furniture Interior design Mood
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
My goal is to make furniture that people can be comfortable living with. If you’re not preoccupied with making an impact with your designs,… — Sam Maloof Copy Share Image
I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects… — Gae Aulenti Copy Share Image
I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I am passionate about design - I always say that I want to have a hotel, called the Chlotel, full of beautiful plush rugs,… — Chloe Fineman Copy Share Image
I designed every piece {of furniture} for a different reason and purpose, so I love each one. — Savannah Brinson Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff. — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books. — Aerin Lauder Copy Share Image
Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home. — Tamara Taylor Copy Share Image
When I began designing machines I also began to think that these objects, which sit next to each other and around people, can influence… — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
It is important to realize that whatever we do or design has iconographic references, it comes from somewhere; any form is always metaphorical, never… — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we… — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels… — Paul Simon Copy Share
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
