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Architect Inspirational Quotes (5707)

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A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.
Walter Gropius
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Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
Walter Gropius
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We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.
Walter Gropius
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Children should be introduced right from the start to the potentialities of their environment, to the physical and psychological laws that govern the visual world, and to the supreme enjoyment that comes from participating in the creative process of giving form to one's living space.
Walter Gropius
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Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts.
Walter Gropius
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
Walter Gropius
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However often the thread may be torn out of your hands, you must develop enough patience to wind it up again and again.
Walter Gropius
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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.
Roberto Matta
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We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.
Thomas Jefferson
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To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.
Thomas Jefferson
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Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
Hans Hofmann
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Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
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Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.
Sigfried Giedion
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You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
Arthur Erickson
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(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.
Andreas Feininger
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If [a woman] insisted on becoming an architect, I would try to dissuade her. If then, she was still determined, I would give her my blessing – she could be that exceptional one.
Pietro Belluschi
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Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.
H. R. Giger
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Nothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form.
Alvar Aalto
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The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.
Alvar Aalto
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I do not write, I build.
Alvar Aalto
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Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.
Alvar Aalto
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Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
Alvar Aalto
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True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.
Alvar Aalto
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