Air Quote by Ross Parmenter

There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much…

— Alex Webb

The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

— Deborah Tall

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

— Luis Barragan

We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to…

— Alain de Botton

“All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.”

— Elisabeth Beazley

Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.

— Paul Cezanne

Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in…

— Lucy Larcom

“The degeneracy of mankind is distinguished from its uprise by the dominance of chill abstractions, divorced from aesthetic content.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Human lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes…

— milan kundera

“Human beings have always been an unfinished species, a story in the middle, a succession of families, tribes, and societies in transition to new…

— Tony Hiss

“All those summer drives, no matter where I was going, to a person, a project, an adventure, or home, alone in the car with…

— Rebecca Solnit