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I never wanted to make portraits - to photograph celebrities, beautiful people, beautiful landscapes, beautiful buildings, or people in distressing situations.... I have always been interested in everyman - average, ordinary people in everyday situations. -- Ray Metzker
And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq by American weapons.... Americans should feel the pain they have inflicted on other peoples of the world, so as when they suffer, they will find the right solution and the right path. -- Saddam Hussein
Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful. -- Philip Johnson
I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago. -- Nate Berkus
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. -- Harold MacMillan
I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight. -- Takeru Kobayashi
It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city. -- Rem Koolhaas
We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco. -- Cesar Pelli
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. -- Martha Graham
I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter. -- Ben Nicholson
The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home. -- Matt Blunt
My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too. -- Edmund Hillary
I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building. -- Jason Silva
Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times. -- Rem Koolhaas
In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure. -- Bruce Nauman
It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth. -- Nanette Lepore
Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings. -- Bjarke Ingels
Jerry Orbach was the first person to take me to the Friars Club. It's a beautiful building, and you walk into these halls of comedic history and meet these old cats who could tell you a million stories about how things went down in New York City. -- Jesse L. Martin
It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are. -- Christopher Alexander
Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes. -- Susan Sontag
It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise ... -- Greta Garbo
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

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