Robert Evans Quotes

I love architecture.

Architecture is invention.

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you can't separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in a big mass of ugly.

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.