Monday, February 1, 2010

Quotes

Since our current project is a semester long process, I've decided to add some quotes that I find relative to architecture. These are some great words of wisdom brought on by famous architects and artists. Enjoy!

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen
-Frank Lloyd Wright


The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
-Michelangelo

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
-Leonardo da Vinci

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
-Le Corbusier

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
-Phillip Johnson

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through
-Dan Rice

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul
-Ernest Dimnet


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