#architecture

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#any #architects #architecture #called #could

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#comes #deepest #different #effect #entering

I see music as fluid architecture. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#fluid #i #i see #music #see

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#architecture #carried #content #country #express

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#art #cause #emotion #i #newness

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#architecture #disseminate #ideology #political #political ideology

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#astonishing #drawing #forms #led #light

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

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

— James Wyatt

#beauties #country #forgotten #gothic #long

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#descriptive #each #fixed #individual #lyric