John Ruskin Quotes

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

The building's identity resided in the ornament.

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.

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

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

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.

We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore because they haven't been doing it for, you know, the better part of the century.

The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

I try to just put a blank stage in front of them, and say, "This is your space; you tell me where you're coming from and where you're going." At a certain point, it was interesting as the project started to become what it is now, The Source, which has a physical installation and also an online presence. As we started building the installation, I started thinking, "It's really strange that we're building this installation, this piece of architecture you can go into." It's almost strange because I suppose it's an artwork, but it's an artwork that's really constructed out of ideas.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

We expect too much of new #‎ buildings , and too little of ourselves.