Quotes of: Frankness Keyword

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

Zaha Hadid

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Arthur Erickson

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

Philip Johnson

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Thom Mayne

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

The Architecture of Community

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Real Frank Zappa Book

...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.

Re: CP

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

Miroslav Vitous

The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.

Peter Eisenman

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

Peter Zumthor

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

Peter Zumthor

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

Ralph Adams Cram

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

Ralph Adams Cram

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

Stan Getz

The whole notion of an embassy is like 'The Other.' That's what makes Washington interesting.

Steven Holl

Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

Toyo Ito

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

Thom Mayne

Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

Kevin Eubanks

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

Louis Kahn

I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.

Laura Mvula

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

Laura Mvula