“Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.” WellsArtMotivationalEmotionEnvironmentProduceArchitectureWell BeingAtmosphereAestheticModern ArchitectureArchitecture And Art Author:Luis Barragan
“Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.” KindHas BeensArtIdeasUseFormEmotionNovelStylePaintingTheaterConservativeArchitectureMediumsCinemaMovieOperaFrozenSculptureDance Music Author:Susan Sontag
“If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.” IfsStatesEmotionBuildingSittingArchitectureEmpiresCatharsisSilhouettesEmpire State BuildingEmpire State Author:Timothy Levitch
“Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.” HumansCan DoEmotionConditionsTheaterIntellectArchitectureHuman ConditionExalted Author:Hugh Hardy
“In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.” HumansFormEmotionBuildingDemandBoxesArchitectureHuman Emotions Author:Kenzo Tange
“The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a perpetual present. in the US everything human is artificial. The country is without hope. What is arresting here is ... both the absence of architecture in the cities and the dizzying absence of emotion and character in the faces and bodies.” HumansCountryCharacterBodyPastFacesEmotionCitiesArchitectureAbsenceAuthenticityArtificialPerpetualFoundingWithout HopeArresting Author:Jean Baudrillard