Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.
Architecture is a code. It's a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.
The big thing on the horizon for me is video. I feel like it's the closest thing to a perfect mix between music and design, because it has the motion and it has the dynamics of music, while at the same time having the aesthetic components of design. It's a nice mix.
With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.
When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.
What I dream of is an art of balance.
In every picture there should be shade as well as light.
I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read.
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.
My drawings are another kind of music for me...they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.
It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
There are universal shapes to which everybody is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off.
Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.
Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea.
The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
