We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst – you need them both.
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Karl Lagerfeld
What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian's. I remember it from a lecture of his on the Iliad, when Patroklos appears to Achilles in a dream. There is...
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Donna Tartt
The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in...
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Thomas Hardy
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact as if it were common knowledge: the traditional design of most patriarchal buildings of worship imitates the female body. Thus, there is an...
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Gloria Steinem
More Quotes By James Turrell
We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art...
I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.
I am involved in the architecture of space.
You can't stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn't work at Hadrian's Wall. The Great Wall of China didn't work. The Berlin Wall.
In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.
