164 quotes found
“Let us summarize these three points more concisely:(a) The rejection of art as a mere emotional, individualistic, and romantic affair.(b) Objective work, undertaken with the silent hope that the en...”
“We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.”
“I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.”
“It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ...”
“When strange objects shapes the landscape, we get fiction”
“I don't know who you are," she thought, "but whoever you are, you're one hell of a player.”
“Simple is complicated.”
“The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships.”
“But I dont understand. Why do you want me to think that this is great architecture? He pointed to the picture of the Parthenon.That, said the Dean, is the Parthenon.- So it is.- I havent the time t...”
“Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves.”
“Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.”
“How much more mysterious and inviting is the street of an old town with its altering realms of darkness and light than are the brightly and evenly lit streets of today! The imagination and daydream...”
“And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and you must be instructed how to Cast them with due Care. It is only the Darknesse that can give trew ...”
“We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.”
“I look around with divine precision and gazing free upon the earth, I see architects and earthquakes - empaths and robots - fictions and near misses - lives changing, children sleeping, beauty bri...”
“Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.”
“Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from ...”
“We are what we build”
“Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the locals really believe what they are told, and do they truly revere Fat Man and Little Boy? I have b...”
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
