All About Arts & Architecture!!

… lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
Kandinsky

"In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings, and speak its own language. I believe that the language of architecture is not a question of a specific style. Every building is built for a specific use in a specific place and for a specific society"

Peter Zumthor

“Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.”

Henry Thoreau

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. 
Louis Kahn

In art the best is good enough.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It's in the doing that the idea comes."

Edmund Bacon

"Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable."

Alvaro Siza

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past—by precedent, thoughtfully considered…As an artist, I frankly write about what I like in architecture: complexity and contradiction. From what we find we like—what we are easily attracted to—we can learn much of what we really are."

Robert Venturi

"A building is a building. It cannot be read like a book; it doesn't have any credits, subtitles or labels like picture in a gallery. In that sense, we are absolutely anti-representational. The strength of our buildings is the immediate, visceral impact they have on a visitor."

Jacques Herzog

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."

Frank Lloyd Wright

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

"The success of the masterpieces seems to lie not so much in their freedom from faults - indeed we tolerate the grossest errors in them all - but in the immense persuasivness of a mind which has completely mastered its perspective."

Virginia Woolf

Architecture is the art of how to waste space. 
Philip Johnson

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. 
Frank Lloyd Wright

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. 
Julia Morgan

“I’m very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our physical and psychological needs in the way that clothing does. We don’t turn on the air-conditioning as we walk through the streets in high summer. Instead, we change the character of the clothing by which we are protected. Layering and changeability: this is the key..."

Glenn Murcutt

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Novalis

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

Oscar Wilde

I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

George Burns

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Architecture is the thoughtful making of space."

Louis Kahn

"A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions."

Louis Sullivan

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. 
Harry Seidler

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. 
Yoshio Taniguchi

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde

Less is more. 
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Gustave Flaubert

"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan."

Eliel Saarinen

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Pablo Picasso