Architecture Quote by Philip Johnson Download Open image “Architecture is art, nothing else.” — Philip Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Art
Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation, — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice. — Witold Rybczynski Copy Share Image
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it;… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
