Architecture And Art Quotes

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Design is where science and art break even.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.