Architecture Quote by Lawrence Weiner Download Open image “Art's supposed to build logic structures.” — Lawrence Weiner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Art Logic Structure
Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines. — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know. — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
I think there should be a reworking of the value structure of art. The value is when the artist makes a first engagement with… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
I think it's a waste of time to worry about the motives of why people are supportive of things. I think we should look… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
What interested me the most was that when I [traveled to Europe] I knew what Joseph Beuys was doing, he knew what I was… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
We were brought up in a world which was based on Aristotle. Science-wise and everything, that's really quite exciting and you learn a lot.… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
There is a discrepancy of somebody going to an art dealer and promising what they'll make for the next three years. And I'm old… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
I'm not against art fairs, in fact this last one I even made money, but the concept is really disgusting. If you're that rich… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
People, buying my stuff, can take it wherever they go and can rebuild it if they choose. If they keep it in their heads,… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
The concept of who your audience is becomes more important than your site. Sometimes you can be commissioned to do a piece in Strasburg,… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
What art is not processed? "Conceptual art." Somebody making a painting has to conceive of the size. I don't understand where these words came… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a… — Lawrence Weiner 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
