Best art & architecture Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.”

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Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.”

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Author:Maya Lin

“Architecture is art, nothing else.”

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Author:Philip Johnson

“Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.”

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Author:Philip Johnson

“There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.”

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Author:Moshe Safdie

“By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.”

“Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.”

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Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.”

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Author:Prince Charles

“The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.”

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Author:Zaha Hadid

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

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Author:Luis Barragan

“Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.”

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Author:Paul Gauguin

“I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a PhD in comparative literature so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called FMR, so we have a common interest in design.”

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Author:David Chipperfield

“The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.”

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Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be revolutionized by freeing designers and construction workers from repetitive tasks, and democratized by making high-style architecture more affordable.”

“I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.”

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Author:Will Self

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