#architect

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect. ↗

— Terry McMillan

#life #make #nothing #work #you

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#building #confidence #constructed #enter #gate

I see music as fluid architecture. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#fluid #i #i see #music #see

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. ↗

— Marc Newson

#design #kind #mystify #need #people

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#architecture #art #art form #aspect #certainly

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. ↗

— John Portman

#architects #attention #believe #building #concentrate

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. ↗

— Quintilian

#architect #character #creator #distinguish #faculty

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#business #city #even #planning #slow

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#architecture #doing #focusing #great #great work

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#beings #board #drawing #human #human beings