#architecture

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#writing #architecture

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul. ↗

— Thomas More

#soul #architecture

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#architecture

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals. ↗

— Noël Coward

#buildings #cities #london #morality #skyscrapers

I think I have said enough. ↗

— Cedric Price

#architecture

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#architecture #chapel #fantastic #feel #get

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#architecture #be the first #believe #convinced #debate

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#architects #designed #hands #honorable #intentions

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. ↗

— Alex Winter

#architecture #everywhere #hits #i #lot

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. ↗

— James Wyatt

#beauties #country #forgotten #gothic #long