Top 41 Quotes About Architecture And Culture
#1. You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?
Patricia Marx
#2. Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of just a means of getting from one place to another.
Sally A. Kitt Chappell
#3. 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
#4. The externalization of memory [via the use of external symbolic storage systems] has altered the actual memory architecture within which humans think, which is changing the role of biological memory, the way in which the human brain deploys its resources, and the form of modern culture.
Merlin Donald
#6. There is a truism in the world of architecture that design creates culture.
Tilar J. Mazzeo
#7. Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in a group space. In this sense architecture serves our institutions and expresses the values of our culture.
Robert L. Geddes
#8. The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.
Frederick William Robertson
#9. The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed, as in our political and social culture as a whole-ours has been a struggle to formulate and sustain a usable past.
Robert A. M. Stern
#10. Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.
Marshall McLuhan
#11. Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#12. Information and inspiration are everywhere ... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
John Howe
#13. There's a famous quote which goes something like, 'You are what you are, having secretly become what you wanted to be'. Maybe there's some truth to that. We like to think that society shapes us, but I don't think that that's the way it happens. Select, 1991
Mark Simpson
#14. I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.
Eric Kandel
#15. I'm a bloodletter, not a politician," Nyx said. "I just take off heads.
Kameron Hurley
#16. Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.
Mark Wigley
#17. I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.
David Harewood
#18. London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
G-Eazy
#19. I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
Vera Wang
#20. I am an only child. I have one sister.
Woody Allen
#21. Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
Alvar Aalto
#22. There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.
Lenny Kravitz
#23. Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
Rem Koolhaas
#24. Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; it's a holy act.
Mario Botta
#25. The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.
Xavier Dolan
#26. It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor.
Julia Child
#27. Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.
Samuel Johnson
#28. a square is also an organism, not just a work of art and architecture [Michael Kimmelman, "Culture: Power of the Place"].
Catie Marron
#29. 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
#30. Keep your soul at peace, in order to be able to be attentive and very faithful to the inner movement of the Holy Spirit.
Peter Julian Eymard
#31. I go to the gym three times a week and do Pilates three times a week, but not for more than an hour. It's not healthy.
Brittany Snow
#32. The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
Khalil Gibran
#33. These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another ... Most good people have a sense of humor. The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are mostly humorless.
Dean Koontz
#34. Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#35. The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it.
Claire Tomalin
#36. Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
Tadao Ando
#37. As we enter this election year, let's not forget the most important decision anyone can make-choosing Christ.
Franklin Graham
#38. People ask me how I stay happy and sane: I never google myself.
Miley Cyrus
#39. In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.
Edward J. Fraughton
#40. I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.
Mick Jagger
#41. My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.
Donald Coggan