Architecture Quote by Peter Behrens

Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.

— Rick Poynor

Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values.

— Samuel

There are people that thinks that type should be expressive. They have a different point of view from mine.

— Massimo Vignelli

Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful,…

— Stanley Morison

When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is…

— Frederic Goudy

“A revolution which can transform modes of production but not types of speech, social relations but not styles of architecture, remains radically incomplete.”

— Terry Eagleton

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But…

— Arne Jacobsen

Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad…

— Meyer Schapiro

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I wanted to…

— Shigeru Ban