Quotes About Drawing Architecture

#1. Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

Eduardo Souto De Moura

#2. God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

Alvar Aalto

#3. The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

Judy LaMarsh

#4. I'd never noticed him anywhere near the pool, but he knew my swimwear cold, which was flattering and alarming at the same time.

Gillian Flynn

#5. Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Oscar Niemeyer

#6. So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there are a lot of different things in terms of architecture which assisted in the construction. Then every sci-fi movie I've grown up with from 'Blade Runner' to 'Aliens' and 'Star Wars.'

Len Wiseman

#7. I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

Hussein Chalayan

#8. Luck has a peculiar habit of favoring those who do not depend on it.

George S. Clason

#9. My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

Jude Deveraux

#10. People who started businesses and contributed to patent applications were more likely than their peers to have leisure time hobbies that involved drawing, painting, architecture, sculpture, and literature.

Adam M. Grant

#11. Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

Paul Westerberg

#12. Wrestling - It isn't just a passion, it's my future.

Paige

#13. If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

Paul Conrad

#14. The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#15. My greatest inspiration is memory.

Paul Theroux

#16. ...my soul bleeding tears of anguish

Katie MacAlister

#17. However, now she was a schoolgirl no longer. She had discovered how to manage her hair, had been to one or two parties and a night club, and laid on lipstick with the idea that each layer was a layer of sophistication.

Monica Dickens

#18. I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.

Bjarke Ingels

#19. The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture ... Sometimes ... it seems to me that ... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

Michelangelo

#20. Journey becomes difficult when we know the destination but not aware of the right path, may be the supreme power testing your moral and physical stamina.

Durgesh Satpathy

#21. I've never experienced peace in my life, and I don't want to. I don't trust the idea

Janet Kauffman

#22. You cannot fit a lifetime into one meeting of lips, even if you try.

Anonymous

#23. All four once more together.

Alexandre Dumas

#24. 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

#25. Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.

Ernest Gellner

#26. It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Oscar Niemeyer

#27. The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.

Michael Hansmeyer