“If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.” IfsThinkingHas BeensArtistInfluenceDirectArchitectureMechanicJapanese Architecture Author:Minoru Yamasaki
“So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.” TryingArtistBuildingArchitecturePainterConsistentSculptors Author:Minoru Yamasaki
“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.” IfsWantArtDoneArtistHoursCrazyCreaturesProjectsArchitectureRipEleventh Hour Author:Maya Lin
“I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and Renaissance architecture and to hold a tube of Alizarin Madder Lake in my artist's hand and marvel at the shiny goop inside.” RealHandsArtistAirPaintingBecomingStudiosArchitecturePainterLakesRomeMedievalRenaissanceTubesFooled Author:Mark Kostabi
“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.” ArtArtistLossAudienceModernArt IsConcernArchitectureProgressiveModern Art Author:Paul Gauguin
“A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not been reached. Whether people are artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole.” LongArtMatterWholeFormArtistSocialDemocracyArt IsIdealsMachinesCreatorArchitectureWorks Of ArtNurseParticipatingDemocracies Have Author:Joseph Beuys