Famous Quotes About art

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.

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.

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.