Animal Quote by Gerhard Richter

We have to be living models.

— Jerome Myers

“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a…

— John Stuart Mill

Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art,…

— John Henry Holland

“Modeling—a process to develop a representation of reality to understand, communicate, or predict.”

— Rich Jolly

Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo.

— Stephane Rolland

A model is supposed to represent reality, and in reality, people come in all shapes, sizes, nationality, and colour.

— Madeline Stuart

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

— Leon Krier

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between…

— Alberto Giacometti

[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate…

— Michael Hansmeyer

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

— Gerhard Richter

A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.

— Freeman Dyson

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

— Eugene Delacroix