Santiago Calatrava Quotes

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

There's nothing like the joy of the arts, and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a start in life in a way.

I just love being in the arts.

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts.

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

The future of architecture is culture.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.

I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

The arts don't exist in isolation.