Architecture Quote by Santiago Calatrava

Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of…

— Thomas Heatherwick

When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about…

— Santiago Calatrava

For me, architecture is an art the same as painting is an art or sculpture is an art. Yet, architecture moves a step beyond…

— Santiago Calatrava

There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all…

— Santiago Calatrava

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

— Santiago Calatrava

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its…

— Walter Gropius

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

— Herbert Spencer

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

— Marie-Antoine Careme

Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves…

— Havelock Ellis

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.

— Julia Child

Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité…

— George Hickenlooper

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

The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have their roots…

— Santiago Calatrava

The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the…

— Santiago Calatrava

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