Attractive Quote by Nicole Krauss

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

— Rob Chapman

It sometimes happens that you just know... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on a number…

— Paolo Pellegrin

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits…

— Northrop Frye

It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though they're ecosystems, full-fledged…

— Joshua Mohr

Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I…

— Gerhard Richter

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about:…

— Ma Yansong

It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the…

— Leni Zumas

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a…

— Nicole Krauss

Architecture falls between art and airports. It's pragmatic-it helps you get from point A to point B. But it also works as art. It…

— Ben van Berkel

“If we close our eyes and take a deep breath, and summon meaningful memories, we quickly notice that they are tied to a specific…

— Sarah Robinson

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

— Antoine Predock

One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as…

— Jimenez Lai