David Chipperfield Quotes

I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.

People do write books.

I have a huge passion for literature.

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

I write novels and other things.

Architecture is a political art connecting our values to the ages.

Opera is too obsessed with buildings.

Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.

Inspiration is around you. Like, when I travel any country, be it Paris or London, while walking on the streets, the architecture, the restaurants all inspire me. Inspiration for design could be anywhere.

I grew up in Romania studying art and architecture.

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.

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.

By and large books are mankind's best invention.

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

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

Libraries...house our dreams.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.

Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed