#architect

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#architecture #bureaucrats #complicated #criticism #functions

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#everything #guitarist #only #sabbath #tony

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#been #direct #examine #find #i

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#architecture #buildings #completely #consistent #later

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#anywhere #build #buildings #go #restless

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. ↗

— Martha Graham

#beautiful #building #his #like #love

Literature is painting, architecture, and music. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#art #creativity #literature #music #painting

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty ↗

— John Ruskin

#truth #architecture

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain. ↗

— John Adams

#liberty #architecture

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#art #convention #architecture