Quotes on Architecture And Art

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

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

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