Absolutes Quote by Paul Klee

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“When being objective, we can transcend and look back at our constructs with powerful clarity; instead of looking through them, which can give a…

— Jay Woodman

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path…

— Yehudi Menuhin

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

— Arthur Erickson

“Simplicity and straightforwardness proceed from conceptual integrity.”

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form,…

— Ayn Rand

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

— Russell Sherman

“Think of facts and figures as bricks and cement, and science or scientific understanding as a building. Without the vision of the architect, it's…

— Abhijit Naskar

“We are what we build”

— Lois Farfel Stark

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency…

— William James

Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a…

— Gerhard Richter