I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
God is in the details.
Ted: "Trying to get them interested in architecture as a career."
Barney: "Why? Are we running out of buildings?"
Robin: "Are we running out of boring people?"
Barney: "Why? Are we running out of buildings?"
Robin: "Are we running out of boring people?"
Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother - Season 7 Episode 5
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works.
Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."
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9The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.
Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta
8Art is a way of survival.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.
It's better to be good than to be original.
A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.
Well, maybe this isn't a breakup. Maybe this is two friends getting back together.
Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother - Season 5 Episode 7
7My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.
Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks.
Joel Barish in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.
The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy - June 1963
3It's only once you've stopped, that you realize how hard it is to start again. So you force yourself not to want it.
Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 6 Episode 3
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