Architecture Quote by Pipilotti Rist

We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We…

— Mark Rothko

so full of shapes is fancy

— William Shakespeare

I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel…

— Bibhu Mohapatra

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every…

— Christian de Portzamparc

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

— James J. Gibson

To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

— Samuel Beckett

I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual…

— Roy Lichtenstein

“We therefore find that the triangles and rectangles herein described, enclose a large majority of the temples and cathedrals of the Greek and Gothic…

— Samuel Colman

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.

— John French Sloan

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

— Michel de Montaigne

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial…

— George Eliot

“I think [the design] sucks. Its shape is not innovative, it's not elegant and it doesn't feel anthropomorphic.”

— Steve Jobs