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For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help.
— Paula Abdul
I would rather start a family than finish one.
— Don Marquis
I love cooking for myself and cooking for my family.
— Al Roker
When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.
— Julius Erving
My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
— Bobby Darin
There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!
— Amiri Baraka
Family, nature and health all go together.
— Olivia Newton-John
I was born into the most remarkable and eccentric family I could possibly have hoped for.
— Maureen O'Hara
My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.
— Whoopi Goldberg
My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.
— Stevie Nicks
My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.
— Charles Barkley
A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.
— Kathleen Turner
I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.
— Wolfgang Puck
My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.
— Ethel Waters
Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.
— Kristin Davis
Probably the earliest memories for me would be going to restaurants with my family.
— Alexander Wang
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
— Thomas Hardy
I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction.
— Donald Johanson
I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or five months of my life to something even if I'm overpaid, it's four or five months of my life away from home, away from my son, away from family and friends. I better believe in it on some level even if it's a big movie.
— Colin Farrell
For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.
— Domenico Dolce
I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ensemble comedy, television comedy, where half the eyeballs on your show are women.
— Dan Harmon
I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.
— Merle Haggard
The things that make me happy most are my family and working.
— Damon Albarn
I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
— Antonio Tabucchi
One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.
— Smokey Robinson
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.
— Prince William
People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.
— Geoffrey Rush
I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.
— Anthony Anderson
I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.
— Elizabeth Berkley
I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.
— Debra Messing
I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.
— Mark Hamill
Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.
— Michael N. Castle
I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
— Doris Day
People say that having three orchestras is a crazy life, but it's better because you have three families. I want to have my own kids very soon. In future, I still want to conduct a lot, but less, to be with my family.
— Gustavo Dudamel
Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
— Clare Boothe Luce
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
— Anita Baker
I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.
— Richard M. Daley
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
— Jessamyn West
I've always been a strong family advocate. I had a wonderful family growing up.
— Cheryl Ladd
I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
— Abbie Cornish
My schedule can be hectic, so I'm always trying to find time to see my friends and family.
— Jessica Szohr
My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.
— Julie Christie
I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.
— Chris O'Donnell
I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.
— James Gandolfini
You have to be funny about it and honest about it. You can't leave yourself out of that mix. You have to be honest enough to say, I'm that messed-up one in the family.
— Louie Anderson
The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.
— Charles Hodge
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
— Nastassja Kinski
That's always at the heart and soul of Disney's features, the feeling of a family values.
— Tia Carrere
Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.
— Christopher Alexander
And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.
— Louise Slaughter
I don't think anyone has a normal family.
— Edward Furlong
I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.
— Fred Saberhagen
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
— Charles Dudley Warner
The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.
— Ron Reagan
You have to defend your honor. And your family.
— Suzanne Vega
When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
— LaToya Jackson
I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals. had things to sort out.
— Andrea Corr
And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.
— Nolan Ryan
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
— Agnes Smedley
Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.
— Scott Baio
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
— Joseph Stiglitz
I stay in tune with my family and God.
— Regina King
That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.
— Brad Bird
Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.
— Richard G. Scott
The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.
— Richard G. Scott
I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
— Patrick Warburton
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
— Tea Obreht
The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.
— Howard Gardner
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.
— Paul D. Boyer
So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.
— Hugh Dancy
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
— John Cheever
There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.
— Shirley Knight
Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
— Douglass North
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
— John Woolman
Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.
— Colbie Caillat
The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?
— George Crook
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
— Michael Enzi
Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.
— Dave Obey
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
— Bil Keane
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
— Robert M. Hutchins
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
— Akhmad Kadyrov
What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.
— Bob Taft
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
— Malcolm Fraser
I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.
— JoJo
We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.
— Julia Barr
My family background was deeply Christian.
— Abbe Pierre
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
— Marcelene Cox
I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.
— Dennis Lehane
Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.
— Trishelle Cannatella
I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.
— Trevor McDonald
Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.
— Susan Collins
The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.
— Dennis Wilson
I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.
— Steven Levitan
My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
— Albrecht Durer
My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.
— Henry Fonda
If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.
— David McCallum
I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.
— Catherine O'Hara
I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.
— John Robinson
A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.
— Tom DeLay
I love being on 'Modern Family.' One of my favorite things is looking forward to going to work every day.
— Rico Rodriguez
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
— Freya Stark
I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
— Nadine Labaki
I love my family.
— Manute Bol
I wish I had it in my power to furnish you with accommodation I should feel proud to do it, shall be happy to hear from you at anytime when you engagements will allow you an hour and remain with best wishes for yourself, family and circuit.
— John Hawley
It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
— John Phillips
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
— David Ives
When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.
— Bruno Heller
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
— Margaret Drabble
We fought during 'The Wall,' which was an album Waters wrote, based on his family story, we clashed long before that, during the period of the Dark Side and 'Wish You Were Here.' Actually, we never got along.
— Rick Wright
God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
— Frank Knox
When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.
— Duffy
Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
— Bernice Weissbourd
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.
— Lou Duva
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
— David Allan Coe
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
— Julia Morgan
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
— Jim Rohn
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
— Frank Gehry
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
— Winston Churchill
Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
— Walter Gropius
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
— Coco Chanel
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
— Stephen Gardiner
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
— Zaha Hadid
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.
— Cherie Lunghi
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
— Julia Morgan
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
— Ayn Rand
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.
— Frank Gehry
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
— Arne Jacobsen
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
— Christian Dior
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
— Tadao Ando
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
— Audre Lorde
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
— Walter Gropius
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
— Ernest Hemingway
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
— Le Corbusier
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
— Luis Barragan
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
— Maya Lin
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
— Bob Barr
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
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
— Antoni Gaudi
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
— Kenzo Tange
A house is a machine for living in.
— Le Corbusier
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
— Louis Kahn
Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible to move offshore tradable professional skills, such as software engineering, information technology, various forms of engineering, architecture, accounting, and even the medical reading of MRIs and CT-Scans.
— Paul Craig Roberts
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
— Luis Barragan
The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.
— Walter Gropius
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
— Frank Gehry
Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.
— Rem Koolhaas
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
— David Chipperfield
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
— Peter Eisenman
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
— Zaha Hadid
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.
— Frank Gehry
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Form follows function.
— Louis Sullivan
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
— Alvar Aalto
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
— Alvar Aalto
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
— Iain McGilchrist
Architecture is art, nothing else.
— Philip Johnson
In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.
— Philip Treacy
Architecture aims at Eternity.
— Christopher Wren
Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.
— Thomas Gibson
What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.
— Rem Koolhaas
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
— Bob Dylan
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
— Thomas a Kempis
For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
— Bjarke Ingels
Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture.
— Joshua Bell
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.
— Rem Koolhaas
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
— Christian Louboutin
I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
— Trey Parker
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
— John Ruskin
It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
— Michael Graves
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
— Stephen Gardiner
Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
— Bruce Jackson
Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.
— David Chipperfield
As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
— Zaha Hadid
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
— Louis Kahn
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
— John Portman
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
— Michael Graves
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
— Richard Rogers
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
— Richard Rogers
The building's identity resided in the ornament.
— Louis Sullivan
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
— Robert Smithson
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
— Adolf Loos
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
— Antoni Gaudi
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
— Harry von Zell
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
— Daniel Libeskind
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
— Richard Meier
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
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
— Toyo Ito
I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
— Frank Gehry
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
— Le Corbusier
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
— Jaime Lerner
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
— Walter Gropius
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.
— Renzo Piano
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
— Louis Kahn
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
— Louis Kahn
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
— Salvador Dali
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.
— Renzo Piano
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
— Dan Brown
My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.
— Richard Rogers
In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
— I. M. Pei
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
— Kenzo Tange
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
— Kenzo Tange
The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
— Tadao Ando
It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
— Zaha Hadid
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
— Zaha Hadid
In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.
— Joseph Altuzarra
To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.
— Thomas Heatherwick
A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.
— Antoine Predock
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.
— Bernard Tschumi
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.
— Bernard Tschumi
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.
— Martin Filler
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.
— Renzo Piano
Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen.
— Sebastian Bach
I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.
— Kelly Wearstler
A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture.
— Virginia Postrel
Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.
— Thom Mayne
Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
— Arne Jacobsen
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
— Charles Eames
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
— Frank Gehry
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.
— Alvar Aalto
What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.
— Greg Lynn
I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.
— Alan Bennett
I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.
— Drew Barrymore
I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.
— Jean-Michel Jarre
The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it.
— Claire Tomalin
Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.
— Frank Gehry
The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that's changing the whole story.
— Simon Schama
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
— Maya Lin
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.
— Thom Mayne
I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble.
— Anouska Hempel
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.
— Peter Zumthor
Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.
— David Chipperfield
When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.
— Annabelle Selldorf
I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.
— S. J. Rozan
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.
— Gates McFadden
Each new situation requires a new architecture.
— Jean Nouvel
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
— John Ruskin
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
— T. E. Lawrence
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.
— Dieter Rams
To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.
— John Lautner
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
— Tadao Ando
A lasting architecture has to have roots.
— I. M. Pei
I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
— Zaha Hadid
We have to base architecture on the environment.
— Toyo Ito
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
— Luis Barragan
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
— Thomas Fuller
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.
— Renzo Piano
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.
— Alvar Aalto
Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
— Walter Gropius
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
— Zaha Hadid
I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.
— Peter Zumthor
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
— Rafael Moneo
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
— Delia Ephron
An important work of architecture will create polemics.
— Richard Meier
My architecture is the architecture of survival.
— Frei Otto
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
— Adolf Loos
Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.
— Christian de Portzamparc
Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
— Richard Rogers
To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting.
— Ruth Bernhard
Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
— Daniel Libeskind
The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.
— Mukesh Ambani
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
— Vitruvius
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
— Arne Jacobsen
I think architecture has to be a gift.
— Jean Nouvel
I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.
— Toyo Ito
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
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
— Thomas Reid
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.
— Philip Warren Anderson
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
— Alvar Aalto
I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
— Jean Nouvel
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
— Alvar Aalto
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.
— Louis Kahn
I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.
— Charles Jencks
I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.
— Anika Noni Rose
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.
— Renzo Piano
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.
— Renzo Piano
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.
— Renzo Piano
I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.
— Chelsea Cain
The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
— Carlos Slim
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
— Richard Meier
I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.
— Thom Mayne
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
— Ayn Rand
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
— John Osborne
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
— Voltaire
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
— Minoru Yamasaki
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
— Frank Stella
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
— Rem Koolhaas
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
— Kenzo Tange
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
— Helmut Jahn
The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
— Jay Chiat
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
— Arthur Erickson
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
— Arne Jacobsen
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
— Maya Lin
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
— Tadao Ando
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
— Thom Mayne
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
— John Ruskin
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
— Brad Pitt