William Morris Quotes

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.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the biggest achievements we humans can do, I am really convinced that architecture is among the most important.

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

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.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.

Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also be different. It can create surprise. And surprise is the main thing in a work of art. [] I like and respect Brasí­lia very much. It is a simple city, a rational one. I always defend the urban design of Brasí­lia

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!