David Byrne Quotes

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

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

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.

When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.

I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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.

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

A lot of places in Las Vegas are big boxes of stuff. The hotels I've built have had, for lack of a better term, a soul.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren't allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn't please the eye.

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

I think fashion and artistry go hand in hand.

I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture.