Quotes of: Japanese-architecture Keyword

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

Kelly Wearstler

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Luis Barragan

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

Martin Filler

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Michael Graves

As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.

Nathaniel Kahn

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

Rem Koolhaas

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Richard Rogers

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

Tadao Ando

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

Tim Gunn

I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.

Thom Mayne

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

Louis Susman

a true bitch goddess of architecture

Where'd You Go, Bernadette

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

Robert Mayer

Within two or three years of World War II's end, starvation had been basically eliminated in Japan, and yet the Japanese had continued slaving away as if their lives depend on it. Why? To create a more abundant life? If so, where was the abundance? W...

Ryū Murakami

Proprietor: [in Japanese; subtitled] You have to say, "Yes, yes, yes" to any selfish demands they make. Charlie Brown: [in Japanese] They demand ridiculous things. Proprietor: Shut up! Do you know what would happen if they heard you? Charlie Brown: W...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

The Bride: [in Mandarin] Master... Pai Mei: [in Mandarin; subtitled] Your Mandarin is lousy. It causes my ears great discomfort. You bray like an ass! You are not to speak unless spoken to! It is too much to hope but... do you speak Cantonese? The Br...

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness

Japanese Haiku

April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances

Japanese Haiku

The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.

Lester Cole

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.

Lexa Doig