Quotes of: Van Keyword

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Oscar Niemeyer

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

Philip Treacy

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

Peter Zumthor

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

Renzo Piano

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.

Renzo Piano

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

Steven Holl

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

Tadao Ando

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Vitruvius

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

Albrecht Durer

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

Arthur Erickson

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'

Barry McGee

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

Bruce Nauman

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Bruce Nauman

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

Chuck Close

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Cynthia Rowley

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

Dan Colen

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Donald Judd

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Edward Hopper

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

Edward Hopper