Jeremiah Brent Quotes

Of course we'd rather not see Picasso teacups and sheets.

Form follows beauty.

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

All the young designers now are doing something interesting.

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.

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

When I design a car, I want people to look at it and go, 'Wow, that's kind of interesting,' and do a second take.

A piece of sculpture has to be more than a block of wood.

I have a passion for design. Be it a line of clothes or taking a gut decision with unique pieces of furniture, one should always be willing to experiment.

There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.

The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible

Some of the djamphir are so pretty it almost hurts to look at them. And it was hard to look without feeling rumpled and messy in comparison.

The forehead of every work must shine from afar.

Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.

Rooms should be timeless.

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

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.

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.