Art Quote by Mario Botta

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in…

— Mario Botta

I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to…

— Frank Gehry

When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying.…

— Santiago Calatrava

As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the…

— Neri Oxman

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

— Bernard Rudofsky

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures,…

— Gauri Khan

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

— Steve Jobs

“One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets—anything…

— George Orwell

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that…

— Carl Sandburg

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able…

— Ben Nicholson

I didnt know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I dont even think that I knew the word for a…

— Antoine Predock