Hannah Ware Quotes

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.

I was always doodling house sketches.

Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.

I don't have to pitch movies. I'm no good at it!

I enjoy construction and the process of building things, so maybe I'd be a developer of some kind - residential and commercial. Because I produce a lot of television now, I enjoy building things from the ground up, whether it's a physical structure or a show, and seeing them and realizing them.

In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.

There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was that I was going off to do another degree in the history of art. I would have ended up as some art historian at Sotheby's or something.

I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings - the gargoyles and spires - and decided to stay.

Studying technical design and art gave me the ability to see things in 3-D.

It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

That's not to say that I'm a well-informed Catholic. I'm still in idiot.

I'm not a great singer

If I had a dime for everytime that I was wrong, I'd be broke.

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

By many a temple half as old as Time.

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.