Quotes of: Les Keyword

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Isambard K. Brunel

I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.

Norman Foster

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

Oscar Niemeyer

By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.

Rogier van der Heide

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

Robert Rauschenberg

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

Zaha Hadid

Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.

Tommy Shaw

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

Christian Louboutin

I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

Philip Johnson

I did see 'Les Miz' and I thought it was just incredible. Totally incredible. I love 'Chicago,' too.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

L’arbre tombe feuille à feuille : si les hommes contemplaient chaque matin ce qu’ils ont perdu la veille, ils s’apercevraient bien de leur pauvreté.

François-René de Chateaubriand

Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art

Friedrich Nietzsche

-Quand vous regardez le plafond de cette chambre, qu'est-ce que vous y voyez? -L'intérieur de ma tête. -C'est comment? -Opaque.

Fred Vargas

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Frank Lloyd Wright

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The body is a clothing that suits us for life. (Le corps est un habit - Qui nous va à vie.)

Charles de Leusse

The kiss is neither returned nor exchanged, because it's free. (Le baiser n'est ni repris - Ni échangé, car gratuit.)

Charles de Leusse

We don’t look at the sun of truth, but we look at its effects. (Le soleil de la vérité - Ne se regarde, mes ses effets)

Charles de Leusse