#architecture

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. ↗

— Michael Ende

#above #architect #because #building #cheaper

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. ↗

— Roger Waters

#architecture #as far as #been #could #far

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

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

I don't believe in morality in architecture. ↗

— Michael Graves

#believe #i #morality

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#baroque #decoration #interior #over #prose

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#brown #built #clock #country #cuckoo

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#art #art forms #art history #cinema #culmination

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#charles #first #freedom #had #his