3 December 2020 Bob Dylan I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
3 December 2020 Roger Waters I could have been an architect, but I don’t think I’d have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
3 December 2020 Helmut Jahn The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
3 December 2020 Frank Stella Architecture can’t fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn’t real.
3 December 2020 Rem Koolhaas People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that’s both liberating and alarming.
3 December 2020 Christopher Nolan The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
3 December 2020 Alex Winter I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
3 December 2020 Adolf Loos Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
3 December 2020 Stephen Gardiner The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
3 December 2020 Tony Scott We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
3 December 2020 Gates McFadden I love a lot of things, and I’m pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I’d be an obsessive hairdresser.
3 December 2020 Helmut Jahn It’s my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don’t need as long as you’re able to achieve the same result?
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
3 December 2020 Marcus V. Pollio Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
3 December 2020 Daniel Libeskind Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It’s just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
3 December 2020 Minoru Yamasaki Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
3 December 2020 Stephen Gardiner Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
3 December 2020 Louis Kahn A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
3 December 2020 Milton Friedman The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
3 December 2020 Joseph Kosinski Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.
3 December 2020 Juan Goytisolo When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
3 December 2020 Oscar Niemeyer Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
