Spatial Relationship Quotes

The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.

The relationship between man and space is none other than dwelling, strictly thought and spoken.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has a clarity and a measure within itself of its parts (angles, curves, edges and mass); and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

Please, don't use a cornice as a doorstop. At least put it somewhere where people will have to look up at it. Architectural details really ought to be displayed in the same relation to the viewer as they were originally intended.

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.