Quotes by Architects

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew. Norman Foster

Work World Mother Father Parents Ran Honourable Security Only Never Knew Robert Waitress Shop Blue-Collar Moved While Level

Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news. Norman Foster

Good News Good News Down Consumption Greenhouse Anything Fuel Cuts

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance. Norton Juster

A good book written for children can be read by adults. Norton Juster

Good Book Adult Written Read Children Good Book

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. Norton Juster

Good Books Distinction Bad Period

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth. Norton Juster

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea. Norton Juster

Surprise is key in all art. Oscar Niemeyer

Art Key Surprise

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

Form follows beauty. Oscar Niemeyer

Beauty Follows Form

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

Work Art Architecture Cause Emotion Surprise Newness Should Search

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go. Oscar Niemeyer

Way Concrete Go Artistic Capability Fantastic Reinforced

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

Architecture Political Ideology Disseminate Political Ideology Any

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now. Oscar Niemeyer

Myself Think More Could Still Than Now

I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs. Oscar Niemeyer

Everyone Priests Like Talking Catholics Beliefs

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. Peter Eisenman

Architecture Made Power More Compromises Centralized Less Need