Quotes of: Morris Keyword

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Arthur Erickson

I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.

Aaron Koblin

I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple.

Annabelle Selldorf

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.

Willis Polk

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

Frank Gehry

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

Frank Gehry

I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.

Helmut Jahn

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Arthur Erickson

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

Bjarke Ingels

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

Thom Mayne

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

Thom Mayne

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

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.'

John Maeda

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

Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea.

Paul Rand

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

All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.

Marxism And Politics

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

Re: CP

Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.

Tuesdays with Morrie

If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are

Tuesdays with Morrie