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Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. -- Arthur Erickson
I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture. -- Bernard Rudofsky
Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different. -- Richard Meier
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture. -- Prince Charles
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. -- Frank Gehry
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. -- James Henry Breasted
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. -- Maya Lin
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. -- Maya Lin
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. -- Salvador Dali
My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies. -- Louis Susman
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. -- Robert Smithson
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. -- Julia Morgan
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. -- Francisco Costa
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. -- Charles Jencks
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. -- Thom Mayne
When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. -- Roman Coppola
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. -- Arthur Erickson
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. -- Janet Echelman
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. -- Frances Mayes
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. -- Philip Warren Anderson
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. -- Sydney Pollack
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. -- Bjarke Ingels
To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art. -- John Lautner
I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art. -- Richard Rogers
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. -- Adolf Loos
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. -- Charles Jencks
Architecture is art, nothing else. -- Philip Johnson
Lâ??architecture est art de suggestion. -- Daniel Pennac
I've always been interested in art, architecture, color. -- Lee Radziwill
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. -- Arne Jacobsen
The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. -- Philip Johnson
Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice. -- Witold Rybczynski
There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art. -- Bernard Rudofsky
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. -- Arthur Erickson
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. -- Philip Johnson
Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. -- James Polshek
I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. -- James Polshek
Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art. -- John Ruskin
Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation, -- Donald Judd
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. -- Zaha Hadid
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. -- Oscar Niemeyer
Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain. -- Frank Gehry
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes. -- Will Self
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses -- Juhani Pallasmaa
I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design. -- Ai Weiwei
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era. -- Azzedine Alaia
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. -- Santiago Calatrava
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. -- I. M. Pei
Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture. -- Thom Mayne
I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc. -- Rob Chapman
If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pearsâ?¦ -- Arnold Schoenberg
As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature. -- Ai Weiwei
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery? -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. -- Trevor Paglen
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. -- Luis Barragan
I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art. -- Spencer Tunick
Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me. -- Frank Gehry
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. -- Maya Lin
Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing the essence. -- Roksanda Ilincic
The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment. -- Peter Clewes
Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word "? fed, fertilised by many things. -- Renzo Piano
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think. -- Marco Brambilla
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe it's more segregated between those different disciplines I think. -- Marco Brambilla
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. -- Maya Lin
The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all. -- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up. -- Frank Gehry
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. -- Alvar Aalto
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- John Ruskin
I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow. -- Tim Matheson
There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through -- Dan Rice
I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. -- John Howe

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