Patrick Cox Quotes

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.

I love architecture.

My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial.

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.

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity.

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

With tailored clothing, you can really see where the money went. How it's constructed, how it fits your body - this becomes very apparent in tailored clothing.

I like my products to be smart in a technical way but to show the time invested in their creation, too.

I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.

Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with attention, become beautiful, satisfying.

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

Architecture is crystallized music.

Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, as to the whole, the arrangement of the proportion with a view to a symmetrical result.

I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.

Balenciaga taught me everything I know. He taught me to care for the details, that it was not necessary to sew on a button where it had no use or to add a flower to make a dress beautiful... no unnecessary detail.

The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.