Quotes of: Japanese-architecture Keyword

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Kenzo Tange

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

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

Tadao Ando

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

Thom Mayne

The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains.

The Architecture of Community

I'm very interested in architecture.

Nikki Sixx

If love goes too far, it turns into cruelty.

Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900

Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.

GAMAN The Japanese Art of Patience

Shigemori's body of work is a compelling manifesto for continuous cultural renewal.

Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing the Japanese Garden

A fallen blossom returning to the bough, I thought -- But no, a butterfly.

Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

Ichiro Suzuki

[first lines] Farmer: [in Japanese] Wait, son. Traveler: [in Japanese] Let me go, father. It's my chance.

Yojimbo

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Haruki Murakami

Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.

Hayao Miyazaki: Master of Japanese Animation

I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.

Matthew Sweet

I recognize the fact that I don't have one single drop of Japanese blood in my body. But I've always felt half-Japanese at heart.

Scott Fujita

There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.

Stan Sakai

O-Ren Ishii: [in Japanese; subtitled] For ridiculing you earlier, I apologize. The Bride: [in Japanese; subtitled] Accepted.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Taka: Japanese men do not help with this Algren: [grabs firewood basket] I am not Japanese

The Last Samurai

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Joseph Kosinski

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

James Stewart