Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. – Audre Lorde
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite. – Havelock Ellis
All real education is the architecture of the soul. – William Bennett
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. – Alvar Aalto
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 theory is very interesting. – David Byrne
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. – Arthur Erickson
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature – this very unique to Japan. – Tadao Ando
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts. – Catherine Deneuve
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. – Louis Kahn
I see music as fluid architecture. – Joni Mitchell
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? – Arthur Erickson
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. – Arthur Erickson
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. – Arthur Erickson
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. – Arthur Erickson
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. – Arthur Erickson
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. – Quincy Jones
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. – Le Corbusier
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. – Maya Lin
