Logo
Quote by Michael Ende
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. – Michael Ende

Other quotes by Michael Ende

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. – Michael Ende

Category:
power
Author
Michael Ende
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
architecture
category

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

Category:
architecture

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. – Maya Lin

Category:
architecture

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. – Guillaume Apollinaire

Category:
architecture

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

Category:
architecture

Random Quotes

My mom, shes still always there for me. Always. – David Ortiz

Category:
mom

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

Category:
Poetry

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey. – Steven Chu

Category:
Sports

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections. – Eva Herzigova

Category:
Birthday