Ask me Quote by Luis Barragan Download Open image “Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.” — Luis Barragan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ask me Asks Building Engineering Inspirational Looks
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Great architecture is not just about buildings like the Shard or the Guggenheim - it can be a caravan, castle, boat or house. — George Clarke Copy Share Image
I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful. — Adrian Chiles Copy Share Image
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
“Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this enviroment produces well being” — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
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I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
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I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What… — Wayne Wonder Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”…… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
When a young artist asks me a question, I want to do what I can to give them an answer if I have it… — Michael Tait Copy Share Image
