Quotes by Architects

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything. Norton Juster
You Whatever Young Something Fact Piece Learn Very Anything Information Connect
The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way. Norton Juster
Book Important Expectation Think Other Way Only Write Message Very Which Communicating Thing Start
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
Experience Book People Writing Perception Kids Cities About Write Instead Putting Became Ford How Off Urban Grant Foundation Phantom Received Started Kept
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
Me You Remember School Think Later Kid Kind Would About Remember When Idea Look Read Get Did Where Explain Interesting Interesting Idea Teachers Things
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
Struggle Architecture Progress Political Will Wish Country Carried Out Must Give Participate Content Always Human Lacks Which Social Social Progress Express Technical
Form follows beauty. Oscar Niemeyer
Beauty Follows Form
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. Oscar Niemeyer
Dreams Needs Daily Humanity Able Only Miseries Instant Existence Survive To Survive Even
Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man. Oscar Niemeyer
Me Man Angles Attract Nor Lines Inflexible Straight Created Hard Right
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
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. Oscar Niemeyer
Life Work Architecture Important Matters Spent Drawing More Than Improve Human Human Beings Board Whole Beings
For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity. Oscar Niemeyer
Me Creativity Beauty Valued More More Than Anything Line Than Anything Manifest Act
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
When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. Oscar Niemeyer
Life Political Problems College Nothing About Students Like Know Leave Children Stance Who
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. Oscar Niemeyer
You Space Design More No Reason Almost Because Buildings Concrete Cover Any Reason Basic
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
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
Great History Risks People Architecture Heroes Believe Tell About Write Take Truly The History Of Create Who
Architects design houses. I live in a home. Peter Eisenman
Home Live Design Architects Houses
I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself. Peter Eisenman
Life Love Art Myself Me People My Life Live Design Other Would Never Like Very Precious Different Anything Things Designing
I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it. Peter Eisenman
Coffee Know Maker How Mean Use Appliances
There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies. Peter Eisenman
Think Relative Absolute Openness Thing Societies
I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor. Peter Eisenman
Me History Humor Has-Been Kind Seems David Self-Critical Self-Deprecating Talmud Been Fan Larry Right Jewish
I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany. Peter Eisenman
Myself Think Except Germany Being Really Even Jewish
I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. Peter Eisenman
Day Architecture All Day Immersed Am Office Working Teaching
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