Architectural Quote by Michael Heizer

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

— Michael Heizer

There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all…

— Santiago Calatrava

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

— Michael Heizer

I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make it that…

— Glenn O'Brien

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in.…

— Thomas Heatherwick

I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the…

— Michael Heizer

Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio,…

— Henry Moore

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the…

— Jerry Saltz

There is a right physical size for every idea.

— Henry Moore

Big ideas don't make them selves known as big. They begin with the little, ridiculous ideas that most people would discard or reject. Every…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

Any artwork is part of something larger, grander and, you know, the situation that it's in is very important.

— Robert Barry

If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions.

— Paolo Soleri