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I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. — I.M. Pei

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

We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way. — William L. Hubbard

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. — Maya Lin

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. — Philip Johnson

If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip ... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears ... — Arnold Schoenberg

Less is more, in prose as in architecture. — Donald Hall

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. — Arthur Erickson

Architecture is the king or queen of the arts, — Gaetano Pesce

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses — Juhani Pallasmaa

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

a square is also an organism, not just a work of art and architecture [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"]. — Catie Marron

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. — Roman Coppola

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. — Robert Smithson

Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon. — Bruno Zevi

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. — Trevor Paglen

Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking. — Lynn Margulis

Architecture is art, nothing else. — Philip Johnson

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. — Francisco Costa

I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art. — Spencer Tunick

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works. — Stewart Brand

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. — Zaha Hadid

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture. — Prince Charles

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. — Janet Echelman

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical. — Maya Lin

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. — Frank Lloyd Wright

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst - you need them both. — Karl Lagerfeld

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible. — Marguerite Yourcenar

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. — Bjarke Ingels

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. — James Polshek

Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing the essence. — Roksanda Ilincic

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them ... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era. — Azzedine Alaia

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

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. — Arne Jacobsen

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. — Maya Lin

The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery. — Marie-Antoine Careme

Great artists need great clients. — I.M. Pei

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. — Arthur Erickson

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. — Philip Warren Anderson

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. — Charles Jencks

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. — Santiago Calatrava

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. — Oscar Niemeyer

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art. — John Ruskin

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art. — Bernard Rudofsky

architecture is an art of the mind that will display in front of the eyes from others which can satisfy their needs — Jan Jansen

I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture. — Bernard Rudofsky

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc. — Rob Chapman

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes. — Will Self

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. — Arthur Erickson

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. — Martin Puryear

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. — Luis Barragan

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color. — Lee Radziwill

Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture. — James C. Snyder

Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice. — Witold Rybczynski

Architecture is the art of how to waste space. — Phillip E. Johnson

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. — Salvador Dali

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery? — Frank Lloyd Wright

Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped. — Fritjof Capra

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. — Adolf Loos

Literature is painting, architecture, and music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Modern man has lost the sense of wonder
about the unknown and he treats it as
an enemy. — Laurens Van Der Post

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. — Arthur Erickson

References to all works of art, tombs, tunnels, and architecture in Rome are entirely factual — Dan Brown

Art and architecture
all the arts
do not have to exist in isolation, — Donald Judd

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona. — Frances Mayes

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried. — Ada Louise Huxtable

Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture. — Thom Mayne