Grant Shapps Quotes

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

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.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

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

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

I think a good designer can exist everywhere and anywhere and all the time. It's all about being good, and I think that our job basically is to make women and men look good.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

I see lines of space. I break things down into lines and space, and I balance.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

Design is a vital component to the enrichment of our everyday lives. Japan has a very rich history and culture of design, and I feel it is a very important dialogue to open and keep evolving.

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.