Ice Cube Quotes

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

I love architecture.

Architecture is invention.

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

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

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

Building design isn't trendy.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

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

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

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

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

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.

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.