Art Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus…

— Martin Filler

“Japonisme was a vertical phenomenon running through a number of successive styles; Art Nouveau was a horizontal, chronologically limited phenomenon that embodied the aim…

— Klaus Berger

So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there are a…

— Len Wiseman

Walking the streets of Porto and speaking with the top engineers at Veniam, I am struck by the passion that they bring to the…

— Grant Imahara

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.

— Ben Shneiderman

For me, one of my personal inspirations was designers in the mid-20th century named Charles and Ray Eames.

— Joe Gebbia

We hated Bauhaus. It was a bad time in architecture. They just didn’t have any talent. All they had were rules. Even for knives…

— Oscar Niemeyer

Our main inspiration [with Alix MacKenzie], I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were selected not…

— Warren MacKenzie

The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined…

— Colleen Atwood

Art takes nature as its model.

— Aristotle

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

— H. R. Giger

The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing.…

— Pamela Love