America Quote by Santiago Calatrava

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make…

— Martin Puryear

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is…

— Peter Zumthor

In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adapting artistic endeavors to crafts. There…

— Martha Stewart

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

— Philip Johnson

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't…

— Maya Lin

As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.

— Paula Scher

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

— David Byrne

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

— Carol Ross Barney

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance…

— Daniel Libeskind

We tried to take different roads to get to where we wanted to go to satisfy our creativity as artists.

— B-Real

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

— Judy Chicago

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.

— Raoul Peck