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“So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.”

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Book:The seven lamps of architecture

Source: The seven lamps of architecture

“a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.”

Knows Soul Perfect Pieces Bears Architecture Kindles Reverie

Author:Madame de Stael

“You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.”

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Author:Raimund Abraham

“There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly an independent. The one thing coplanar with music is the compositional aspect, the fact that you are composing something. Architecture is essentially a score, and what happens with it depends on the people who play it, enjoy it, use it, or hate it.”

People World Play Facts Use Happens Hate Enjoy Pieces One Thing Depends Music Is Aspect Independent Architecture Relate Score Composing

Author:Rafael Vinoly

“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.”

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Author:Charles Jencks

“I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.”

Ifs Art Walks Pieces Direct Architecture Thrilling

Author:Brad Pitt

“As with any art, you create it [drumming] out of something that isn't there. It's very architectural. It's the architecture of whatever piece of music I'm playing. I think the whole idea of drumming is to allow other people around you to more easily express themselves.”

People Thinking Art Ideas Whole Pieces Architecture Drumming

Author:Max Weinberg

“After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.”

Want Writing Mind Walks Pieces Photograph Architecture

Author:Patti Smith

“Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene.”

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Author:Invader

“My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.”

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Author:Andy Barrie

“Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.”

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Book:Eduardo Souto de Moura: 1995-2005 : la naturalidad de las cosas

Source: Eduardo Souto de Moura: 1995-2005 : la naturalidad de las cosas

“To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one thing.”

Ends Film Pieces One Thing Details Architecture

Author:Andre Øvredal