Living Space Quotes

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to 'progress.'

Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

The kitchen is a place I know well. It's my favorite room wherever I am living, and it has to be completely open and social.

When I was born my parents lived in a flat so small that it now legally can't be rented out as a dwelling.

It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.

I don't care about style, but I am a total clean freak, so a messy home is a deal breaker. I had one girlfriend who never wanted to go back to her place. When we finally did, it turned out that she was sleeping on her couch because her bedroom was so messy. That is a prime example of someone I don't want to be around.

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

A house is a machine for living in.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

I have had friends for years who have never seen my house.

I live in a cabin in Santa Cruz.

The mole can't live in your dollhouse.

Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

Living in a warehouse is great - but after a while, you just want a garden.

Whitney: Where is your home? Clayton: Wherever you are.

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

When you're designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that's the body. But home is fabrics and furniture and floors and natural light. If fashion is a planet, home is more like a universe.

Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.

Imagine yourself as a living house.

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.