Architecture Quote by Frederick Sommer Download Open image “Choice and chance structure art and nature.” — Frederick Sommer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Art Chance Choice Choices Construction Luck Nature Photographer Photography Structure
The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow… — Adrian Bejan Copy Share Image
Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
We are sculptors finding ourselves in the evolution of choosing, not in the results of choice. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“I believe that chance creates order in the world. We can’t choreograph life events, but we can clasp the hands of those who appear… — Maria Mayo Robbins This I Believe II Copy Share Image
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Our choices are determined by our nature; we choose what we desire and we desire what is most consistent with our nature.” — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
Realistically there is no limit to the possibilities. How does an artist make decisions? — Mike Svob Copy Share Image
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
... art is images you carry. You cannot carry nature with you, but you carry images of nature. When you go out to make… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning. — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated — Frederick Sommer 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.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
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
